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Deforestation and reforestation in Namibia [electronic resource] : the global consequences of local contradictions / by Emmanuel Kreike.

By: Kreike, Emmanuel, 1959-Material type: TextTextSeries: Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 17.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 224 p.) : ill., mapsISBN: 9789047444206 (electronic bk.); 9047444205 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Deforestation -- Namibia | Reforestation -- Namibia | Namibia -- Environmental conditions | Environmental policy -- Namibia | Global environmental change | Deforestation | Environmental conditions | Environmental policy | Namibia | Reforestation | Environmental Studies | Agriculture | NATURE -- Natural Resources | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business | Aufforstung | Rodung | Umweltver�anderung | Namibia | Geschichte 1850-2009Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Deforestation and reforestation in Namibia.DDC classification: 333.75096881 LOC classification: SD418.3.N34 | K74 2010eb (Online)Online resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Maps; Photos; 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-216) and index.

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Maps; Photos; 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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