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Things fall apart? : the political ecology of forest governance in southern Nigeria / Pauline von Hellermann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 18.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780857459909 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Things fall apart? : the political ecology of forest governance in southern Nigeria.DDC classification:
  • 333.7609669 23
LOC classification:
  • SD242.N5 V66 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Ecology and politics in the Benin kingdom -- Separating farm and forest : reservation and dereservation -- Managing the forests : logging and regeneration -- Reinventing farm and forest : the changing forms of Taungya farming -- Okomu National Park : a postscript on conservation. -- Appendix: Administrative history of Edo State.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Governance failure and corruption are increasingly identified as key causes of tropical deforestation. In Nigeria's Edo State, once the showcase of scientific forestry in West Africa,nbsp; large-scale forest conversion and the virtual depletion ofnbsp; timber stocks are invariably attributed to recent failures in forest management, and are seen as yet another instance of how "things fall apart" in Nigeria. Through an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of forestry in Edo State, this book challenges this routine linking of political and ecological crisis narratives. It shows that the roots of many of today's problems lie in scientific forest management itself, rather than its recent abandonment, and moreover that many "illegal" local practices improve rather than reduce biodiversity and forest cover. The book therefore challenges preconceptions about contemporary Nigeria and highlights the need to reevaluate current understandings of what constitutes "good governance" in tropical forestry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ecology and politics in the Benin kingdom -- Separating farm and forest : reservation and dereservation -- Managing the forests : logging and regeneration -- Reinventing farm and forest : the changing forms of Taungya farming -- Okomu National Park : a postscript on conservation. -- Appendix: Administrative history of Edo State.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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