{"product_id":"deforestation-and-reforestation-in-namibia-the-global-consequences-of-local-contradictions-9789004179912","title":"Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia: The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescriptions of the late 1800s landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area’s late 1900s appearance, suggesting that little change occurred between the pre-colonial baseline and the postcolonial outcome. Yet, paradoxically, colonial conquest, population pressure, biological invasions, new technology, and economic globalization caused both dramatic deforestation and reforestation in less than a century. The paradox stems from the fact that the prevailing global environmental models obscure and homogenize the process of environmental change: different and contradictory interpretations are dismissed as alternative readings or misreadings of the same process. Deforestation and Reforestation, however, argues that the paradox highlights the need to reframe environmental change as plural processes occurring along multiple trajectories that may be dissynchronized and asymmetrical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Maps xv Photos xvii  1. Approaches to environmental change  Models of environmental change  The modernization paradigm  The declinist paradigm  The inclinist paradigm  Paradoxes of environmental change   2. Tree castles and population bombs Tree castles and insecurity on the eve of colonial conquest  Portuguese violence and population fight into Ovamboland  Internal migration in South Africa’s Ovamboland Tree castles and deforestation in the 1920s to 1940s  Colonial concerns about overpopulation and deforestation in the 1950s Population growth in Ovamboland  Woody vegetation resources by the close of the twentieth century  3. Conquest of Nature: Imperial political ecologies The political ecology of insecurity  Indirect environmental rule The colonial conquest of Nature: Direct environmental rule   4. Fierce species: Biological imperialism  Invading microbes and virgin soil epizootics  Invading microbes and virgin soil epidemics  A plague of donkeys: Fierce invading equines  Fierce indigenous creatures on the rampage   5. Guns, hoes and steel: Techno-environmental determinism  Guns  Steel tools  Steel plows  Guns and steel in north-central Namibia   6.Naturalizing cattle culture: Colonialism as a deglobalizing and decommodifying force The cattle complex and environmental degradation  Ovambo cattle as global commodities  Cattle, culture and nature  Overstocking and biological time bombs  Colonial barriers: Conservation and fences  Grazing pressure and desertification  Livestock and deforestation  Commodification, deglobalization and deforestation   7. The Palenque paradox: Beyond Nature-to-Culture  Bush cities and the bush  ‘Bushmen’ and the bush   8. The Ovambo paradox and environmental pluralism Deforestation in Ovamboland  Reforestation in Ovamboland Environmental pluralism: Multiprocessual asynchronous environmental change   Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210615972183,"sku":"9789004179912","price":50.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/deforestation-and-reforestation-in-namibia-the-global-consequences-of-local-contradictions-9789004179912","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}