- 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
* Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe
* Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe
Implications for Forest Conservation in the Global South
- Chapter:
- (p.31) 3 * Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe
- Source:
- The Social Lives of Forests
- Author(s):
Roderick P. Neumann
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Do human activities improve nature or diminish it? Neo-Malthusian environmentalist thought and the idea of humans as destroyers of nature's balance remain a powerful discourse shaping interventions in rural land uses in the colonial and postcolonial territories of European empire. Great uncertainty and absence of empirical evidence have led “environmental orthodoxies” or “degradation narratives” to dominate scientific understanding of environmental change and state-led nature conservation practices in the Americas and throughout the colonial world since the time of Marsh's Man and Nature (1864). In recent decades, ideas of wilderness, primeval nature, and stable climax communities have given way to ideas of nature–culture hybrids, socially produced nature, and second nature. Although some have attacked these as politically dangerous, the European Union has embraced hybridity, rather than duality, in biodiversity conservation strategy. This chapter positions the EU biodiversity narrative within a global one to illustrate deep philosophical and ideological differences in conceptualizing nature–society relations from one world region to the next, and examines EU policies as a first step toward rethinking the causes of and solutions for biodiversity loss in the Global South.
Keywords: Ideologies of nature, African conservation, European conservation, Neo-Malthusian, landscape management, hybridity, degradation narratives, biodiversity
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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
