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Things Fall Apart? : The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria / Pauline von Hellermann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 18Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857459893
  • 9780857459909
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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
Summary: 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 failures in forest management, and are seen as yet another instance of how “things fall apart” in Nigeria. Through an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of forestry in Edo State, this book challenges this routine linking of political and ecological crisis narratives. It shows that the roots of many of today’s problems lie in scientific forest management itself, rather than its recent abandonment, and moreover that many “illegal” local practices improve rather than reduce biodiversity and forest cover. The book therefore challenges preconceptions about contemporary Nigeria and highlights the need to reevaluate current understandings of what constitutes “good governance” in tropical forestry.
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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

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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 failures in forest management, and are seen as yet another instance of how “things fall apart” in Nigeria. Through an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of forestry in Edo State, this book challenges this routine linking of political and ecological crisis narratives. It shows that the roots of many of today’s problems lie in scientific forest management itself, rather than its recent abandonment, and moreover that many “illegal” local practices improve rather than reduce biodiversity and forest cover. The book therefore challenges preconceptions about contemporary Nigeria and highlights the need to reevaluate current understandings of what constitutes “good governance” in tropical forestry.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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