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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780857459909
035 _a(DE-B1597)637116
035 _a(OCoLC)861536241
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHellermann, Pauline von
_eautore
245 1 0 _aThings Fall Apart? :
_bThe Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria /
_cPauline von Hellermann.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aOxford :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (206 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aEnvironmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ;
_v18
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Maps and Figures --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tMaps --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Ecology and Politics in the Benin Kingdom --
_t2. Separating Farm and Forest: Reservation and Dereservation --
_t3. Managing the Forests: Logging and Regeneration --
_t4. Reinventing Farm and Forest: The Changing Forms of Taungya Farming --
_t5. Okomu National Park: A Postscript on Conservation --
_tAppendix. Administrative History of Edo State --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aGovernance 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aForest management
_xPolitical aspects
_zNigeria.
650 0 _aForest policy
_zNigeria.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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653 _aEnvironmental Studies (General), Anthropology (General).
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780857459909?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857459909
856 4 2 _3Cover
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