Reframing Deforestation : Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415185912 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 264 str.

James Fairhead; Melissa Leach

Opis

This text argues that the scale of deforestation wrought by West African farmers during the 20th century has been vastly exaggerated and global analyses have unfairly stigmatized them and obscured their more sustainable, landscape-enriching practices. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin) and using historical and social anthropological evidence, it illustrates that more realistic assessments of forest cover change, and more respectful attention to local knowledge and practices, are necessary bases for effective and appropriate environmental policies.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Deforestation in West Africa: the foundations of orthodoxy 2. Cote d'Ivoire 3. Liberia 4. Ghana 5. Benin 6. togo 7. Sierra Leone 8. Power and knowledge of deforestation 9. Conclusions

O autorze

James Fairhead is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Melissa Leach is a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.