Environmental infrastructure in African history : examining the myth of natural resource management in Namibia / / Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University.

"Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more n...

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Superior document:Studies in environment and history
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Studies in environment and history.
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Physical Description:xviii, 242 p. :; ill., map.
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. The ends of nature and culture; 2. Architects of nature; 3. Dark earths: field and farm environmental infrastructure; 4. Water and woodland harvesting: village environmental infrastructure; 5. Browse and burn: bush savanna as environmental infrastructure; 6. Valuing environmental infrastructure and the myth of natural resources management; 7. Science and the failure to conquer nature: environing and the modern west; Conclusion.