Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions 1st Edition by Emmanuel Kreike 9789047444206 9047444205

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ISBN 10: 9047444205

ISBN 13: 9789047444206

Author: Emmanuel Kreike

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.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Approaches To Environmental Change
Chapter 2: Tree Castles And Population Bombs
Chapter 3: Conquest Of Nature: Imperial Political Ecologies
Chapter 4: Fierce Species: Biological Imperialism
Chapter 5: Guns, Hoes And Steel: Techno-Environmental Determinism
Chapter 6: Naturalizing Cattle Culture: Colonialism As A Deglobalizing And Decommodifying Force
Chapter 7: The Palenque Paradox: Beyond Nature-To-Culture
Chapter 8: The Ovambo Paradox And Environmental Pluralism

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