Deforestation and reforestation in Namibia the global consequences of local contradictions / by Emmanuel Kreike.
Descriptions of the late 1800's landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area’s late 1900's appearance, suggesting that little change occurred between the pre-colonial baseline and the postcolonial outcome. Yet, paradoxically, colonial conquest, populat...
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Superior document: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series, v. 17 |
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Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series ;
v. 17. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Other title: | Preliminary Material / 1. Approaches To Environmental Change / 2. Tree Castles And Population Bombs / 3. Conquest Of Nature: Imperial Political Ecologies / 4. Fierce Species: Biological Imperialism / 5. Guns, Hoes And Steel: Techno-Environmental Determinism / 6. Naturalizing Cattle Culture: Colonialism As A Deglobalizing And Decommodifying Force / 7. The Palenque Paradox: Beyond Nature-To-Culture / 8. The Ovambo Paradox And Environmental Pluralism / Bibliography / Index / |
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Summary: | Descriptions of the late 1800's landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area’s late 1900's appearance, suggesting that little change occurred between the pre-colonial baseline and the postcolonial outcome. Yet, paradoxically, colonial conquest, population pressure, biological invasions, new technology, and economic globalization caused both dramatic deforestation and reforestation in less than a century. The paradox stems from the fact that the prevailing global environmental models obscure and homogenize the process of environmental change: different and contradictory interpretations are dismissed as alternative readings or misreadings of the same process. Deforestation and Reforestation , however, argues that the paradox highlights the need to reframe environmental change as plural processes occurring along multiple trajectories that may be dissynchronized and asymmetrical. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1282951270 9786612951275 9047444205 |
ISSN: | 1570-9310 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | by Emmanuel Kreike. |