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Things Fall Apart?

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Things Fall Apart? Synopsis

Governance failure and corruption are increasingly identified as key causes of tropical deforestation. In Nigeria’s Edo State, once the showcase of scientific forestry in West Africa,  large-scale forest conversion and the virtual depletion of  timber stocks are invariably attributed to recent failures in forest management, and are seen as yet another instance of how “things fall apart” in Nigeria. Through an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of forestry in Edo State, this book challenges this routine linking of political and ecological crisis narratives. It shows that the roots of many of today’s problems lie in scientific forest management itself, rather than its recent abandonment, and moreover that many “illegal” local practices improve rather than reduce biodiversity and forest cover. The book therefore challenges preconceptions about contemporary Nigeria and highlights the need to reevaluate current understandings of what constitutes “good governance” in tropical forestry.

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ISBN: 9780857459893
Publication date: 1st September 2013
Author: Pauline von Hellermann
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 206 pages
Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Genres: Deforestation
Environmental management
Social and cultural anthropology