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The Political Ecology of Forests in West Africa

The Political Ecology of Forests in West Africa

Asiyanbi, Adeniyi
Ece, Melis
Fairhead, James

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in African Development

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 24, 2027

ISBN10: 1041340184
ISBN13: 9781041340188
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 24 2027
Pages: 316
Language: English

This book investigates the transformation of West African forests in the 21st century, reflecting on the politics, struggles, and ideas that define the region's forest socio-ecologies.

Seeing recent developments as in part a continuation of a long history of colonial and postcolonial struggles, the book demonstrates how a new range of powerful political, economic, cultural and environmental dynamics now shape the political ecologies of the region's forests. As forest governance becomes increasingly financialized and centred in climate change mitigation, forest communities and indigenous peoples struggle to maintain and defend claims to and ways of using, managing and living with forests. Centring issues of power and social justice, this book brings together theoretical and empirical works, including new case studies that illuminate the regional commonalities, tensions and differences, and the various cross-scalar dynamics that are (re)defining the way forests are understood, managed, used, conserved and contested across the region.

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