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Misreading the African landscape: society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic

Fairhead, James, 1962-, Leach, Melissa.

Year: 1996.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of plates

List of figures

List of tables

Note on authorship and research collaboration

Acknowledgements

Linguistic conventions

Introduction

1 Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science

2 Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change

3 Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history

4 Ecology and society in a Kuranko village

5 Ecology and society in a Kissi village

6 Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions

7 Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography

8 Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy

9 Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss

10 Towards a new forest-savanna ecology and history

Appendix I Glossary of plant names

Appendix II Cassette recordings of oral accounts and discussions

Cassette recordings of oral accounts and discussions

Notes

List of references

Index

reviews

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Title:

Misreading the African landscape : society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach ; with the research collaboration of Dominique Millimouno and Marie Kamano.

Author:

Fairhead, James, 1962-; Leach, Melissa

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Misreading the African landscape : society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach ; with the research collaboration of Dominique Millimouno and Marie Kamano.
Fairhead, James, 1962-, Leach, Melissa
Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02590

Subject Headings:

• Human ecology -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region)
• Landscape assessment -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region)
• Forest ecology -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region)
• Savanna ecology -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region)
• Environmental policy -- Guinea -- Kissidougou (Region)
• Kissidougou (Guinea : Region) -- Environmental conditions

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