In recent times, Mozambique has endured rapid and violent change, creating multiple, uneven fissures across place and time. This book investigates this dynamic in relation to forest communities, and uses the concept of lifescapes to explore the differential impacts of forest resource use at the household and community level. For some communities, forests represent synergistic places, where health and economy, the present and the spirit world, the future and the past coincide. In such areas, place - people relationships are complex, dynamic and multi- dimensional, emphasising the importance of...