Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Notes
- List of references
- Index
- Titles in the series
- Plate section
Plate section
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Notes
- List of references
- Index
- Titles in the series
- Plate section
Summary
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- Misreading the African LandscapeSociety and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna MosaicPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996