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Things fall apart? : the political ecology of forest governance in southern Nigeria /

Governance failure and corruption are increasingly identified as key causes of tropical deforestation. In Nigeria's Edo State, once the showcase of scientific forestry in West Africa, large-scale forest conversion and the virtual depletion of timber stocks are invariably attributed to recent fa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Von Hellermann, Pauline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ecology and politics in the Benin kingdom
  • Separating farm and forest : reservation and dereservation
  • Managing the forests : logging and regeneration
  • Reinventing farm and forest : the changing forms of Taungya farming
  • Okomu National Park : a postscript on conservation.
  • Appendix: Administrative history of Edo State.