Things Fall Apart? : : The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria / / Pauline von Hellermann.
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, large-scale forest conversion and the virtual depletion of timber stocks are invariably attributed to recent failu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1. Ecology and Politics in the Benin Kingdom
- 2. Separating Farm and Forest: Reservation and Dereservation
- 3. Managing the Forests: Logging and Regeneration
- 4. Reinventing Farm and Forest: The Changing Forms of Taungya Farming
- 5. Okomu National Park: A Postscript on Conservation
- Appendix. Administrative History of Edo State
- Bibliography
- Index