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Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia: The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions

Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia: The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions

Kreike, Emmanuel

Paperback

African HistoryEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9004179917
ISBN13: 9789004179912
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 26 2009
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Descriptions of the late 1800s landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area's late 1900s 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.

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