Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic

by Melissa Leach and James Fairhead

Book Overview

Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. In this 1996 text, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach question these entrenched assumptions. They show, on the contrary, how people have created forest islands around their villages, and how they have turned fallow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521564999
• ISBN13: 9780521564991
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"