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Reframing Deforestation: Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa (Global Environmental Change Series) - Softcover

Fairhead, James; Leach, Melissa

 
9780415185912: Reframing Deforestation: Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa (Global Environmental Change Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415185912 ISBN 13: 9780415185912
Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors evaluate this orthodox critically. Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of deforestation wrought by West African farmers during the twentieth century has been vastly exaggerated. The authors argue that global analyses have unfairly stigmatised West Africa and obscured its more sustainable, even landscape-enriching practices.
Stessing that dominant policy approaches in forestry and conservation require major rethinking worldwide, Reframing Deforestation 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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415185912
ISBN 13 
9780415185912
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
268