Social Lives of Forests电子书

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Contents

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Acknowledgments

1 From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence: Paradigms, Representations, and Practices

Part I. Conceptual Frameworks: Rethinking Social Lives and Forest Transitions: History, Ideologies, Institutions, and the Matrix

2 False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives

3 Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe: Implications for Forest Conservation in the Global South

4 Adam Smith in the Forest

5 Jungles, Forests, and the Theatre of Wars: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and the Political Forest in Southeast Asia

6 Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico

7 Pan-Tropical Perspectives on Forest Resurgence

8 The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions: Theories of Forest Resurgence

9 Paradigms Lost: Tropical Conservation under Late Capitalism

10 Effects of Human Activities on Successional Pathways: Case Studies from Lowland Wet Forests of Northeastern Costa Rica

Part II. Historical Ecologies: Human-Forest Relationships and the Erasure of History

11 Constructing Nature: Socio-Natural Histories of an Indian Forest

12 Culturing the Rainforest: The Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak

13 Residual Effects of Agroforestry Activities at Dos Hombres, a Classic Period Maya Site in Belize

14 Forest as Faunal Enclave: Endangerment, Ecology, and Exclusion in India

15 Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape

Part III. Market Dynamics: Market Dynamics and Regional Change

16 The Fate of the Branded Forest: Science, Violence, and Seduction in the World of Teak

17 Gendered Knowledge and the African Shea-Nut Tree

18 Ancient Forest Tea: How Globalization Turned Backward Minorities into Green Marketing Innovators

19 The Production of Forests: Tree Cover Transitions in Northern Thailand, Northern Laos, and Southern China

20 From Swidden to Rubber: Transforming Landscape and Livelihoods in Mountainous Northern Laos

Part IV. Institutions: Institutions: The Secret Lives of Forests

21 A Forest for My Kingdom? “Forest Rent” and the Politics of History in Asante (Ghana)

22 The Invisible Map: Community Tenure Rights

23 Re-Greening the Sahel: Linking Adaptation to Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainable Development in Drylands

Part V. The Urban Matrix: Urban Ecologies

24 Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland?

25 Urban Residence, Rural Employment, and the Future of Amazonian Forests

26 From Fallow Timber to Urban Housing: Family Forestry and Tablilla Production in Peru

27 Forest Resources, City Services: Globalization, Household Networks, and Urbanization in the Amazon Estuary

28 Chicago Wilderness: Integrating Biological and Social Diversity in the Urban Garden

Notes

References

Contributors

Index