- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
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1 * From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence - Rethinking Social Lives and Forest Transitions
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2 * False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis -
3 * Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe -
4 * Adam Smith in the Forest -
5 * Jungles, Forests, and the Theatre of Wars -
6 * Mutant Ecologies -
7 * Pan-Tropical Perspectives on Forest Resurgence -
8 * The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions -
9 * Paradigms Lost -
10 * Effects of Human Activities on Successional Pathways - Human-Forest Relationships and the Erasure of History
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11 * Constructing Nature -
12 * Culturing the Rainforest -
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 - Market Dynamics and Regional Change
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16 * The Fate of the Branded Forest -
17 * Gendered Knowledge and the African Shea-Nut Tree -
18 * Ancient Forest Tea -
19 * The Production of Forests -
20 * From Swidden to Rubber - Institutions
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21 * A Forest for My Kingdom? “Forest Rent” and the Politics of History in Asante (Ghana) -
22 * The Invisible Map -
23 * Re-Greening the Sahel - Urban Ecologies
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24 * Amazonia 1492 -
25 * Urban Residence, Rural Employment, and the Future of Amazonian Forests -
26 * From Fallow Timber to Urban Housing -
27 * Forest Resources, City Services -
28 * Chicago Wilderness - References
- Contributors
- Index
* From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence
* From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence
Paradigms, Representations, and Practices
- Chapter:
- (p.1) 1 * From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence
- Source:
- The Social Lives of Forests
- Author(s):
Susanna B. Hecht
Kathleen D. Morrison
Christine Padoch
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter introduces the organizing principle of both the volume and the conference that gave rise to it—an argument that counters the “apocalyptic vision” that monopolizes both the popular and scientific literature on tropical ecosystems. It lays out the case for a complex relationship between the two billion people and the forest landscapes in which they reside and challenge the overly simplistic, unidirectional “human versus nature” narrative that dominates development studies and conservation biology, arguing that both in the present day and historically, relationships between humans and forest landscapes are and have been complex, even in regions that have been held up as “poster children” for this Malthusian view. It emphasizes the themes of complexity of forest recovery processes, created invisibility of recovering forests, and the importance of understanding forest histories to guide development and conservation efforts.
Keywords: Malthusian, forest transition, forest recovery, forest history, conservation policy, development policy
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
-
1 * From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence - Rethinking Social Lives and Forest Transitions
-
2 * False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis -
3 * Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe -
4 * Adam Smith in the Forest -
5 * Jungles, Forests, and the Theatre of Wars -
6 * Mutant Ecologies -
7 * Pan-Tropical Perspectives on Forest Resurgence -
8 * The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions -
9 * Paradigms Lost -
10 * Effects of Human Activities on Successional Pathways - Human-Forest Relationships and the Erasure of History
-
11 * Constructing Nature -
12 * Culturing the Rainforest -
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 - Market Dynamics and Regional Change
-
16 * The Fate of the Branded Forest -
17 * Gendered Knowledge and the African Shea-Nut Tree -
18 * Ancient Forest Tea -
19 * The Production of Forests -
20 * From Swidden to Rubber - Institutions
-
21 * A Forest for My Kingdom? “Forest Rent” and the Politics of History in Asante (Ghana) -
22 * The Invisible Map -
23 * Re-Greening the Sahel - Urban Ecologies
-
24 * Amazonia 1492 -
25 * Urban Residence, Rural Employment, and the Future of Amazonian Forests -
26 * From Fallow Timber to Urban Housing -
27 * Forest Resources, City Services -
28 * Chicago Wilderness - References
- Contributors
- Index
