Indigenous Land Management in West Africa: An Environmental Balancing ACT

ISBN-13: 9780198233930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 288 str.

Kathleen M. Baker

Opis

This book examines tropical resource management in West Africa. Drawing widely on field examples, it argues that more account should be taken of ecological conditions and indigenous land-use methods in decision-making about tropical management projects.

Recenzje

This book works well as an overview text and an introduction to the region's farming systems, illustrating the value of comparative analysis and the presentation of vignettes of particular farming systems and ecologies ... the book balances the much greater literature on West African political economy, politics, and agrarian history, in which ecological questions often take a back seat.