Man and Nature in Central African Forests
Author | : Mitsuo Ichikawa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Africa, Central |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mitsuo Ichikawa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Africa, Central |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean Pierre Vande weghe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789020947823 |
At three times the size of France, Central African forests are the largest ropical forest mass after the Amazon and cover a large portion of the Congo Basin. Unlike the forests of Western Africa and Asia, these are still well preserved as in many massive yet little unaffected clumps natural processes continue unperturbed. These forests a crucially vital to countries in the area as well as populations who live off them. At a key moment in time for the history of these forests this book assesses the situation and attempts to answer a few basic questions: which forests are we taling about and where did they come from ? In what way are they different from the other tropical forests in the world? How do these forests's plants and animals live? Since when and by who are they inhabited ? What has been done to safeguard them? What are the major problems faced by theses forests today?
Author | : Jean Pierre Vande weghe |
Publisher | : Protea Boekhuis |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781869190736 |
The pressure is therefore quite strong.
Author | : Richard Peterson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-03-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0429721528 |
A rich, interdisciplinary study of Central African land ethics incorporating conversations with local rainforest inhabitants that yield vibrant new insights into the dilemmas of sustaining Africa's rainforests and its people. In Conversations in the Rainforest, Richard B. Peterson combines interdisciplinary research and intimate, first-hand convers
Author | : Jan Vansina |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2020-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100032320X |
Over 50 years ago, the renowned anthropologist Daryll Forde strongly advocated comparative anthropological studies. Professor Vansina argues that 50 years later, Forde's criticisms still apply despite both Forde's considerable intellectual legacy and an exponential increase in available information. Using the example of Central African peoples, Professor Vansina challenges the current scholarship of sociologists and anthropologists, and makes a compelling case for broad, historical, comparative studies.
Author | : Cas Besselink |
Publisher | : Netherlands Committee for Iucn |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Weber |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780300084337 |
Extending from west Africa to Madagascar, from the vast lowland Congo Basin to the archipelago of forest islands on its eastern rim, the African rain forest is surpassed in size only by the Amazon. This book sheds light on the current efforts to understand and conserve the African rain forest, an area in need of urgent action to save its biological wealth, cultural heritage, and economic potential. Written by conservation scientists and practitioners based in the African rain forest, the book offers a multidisciplinary perspective that integrates many biological and social sciences. Early chapters trace the forces--from paleoecological factors to recent human actions--that have shaped the African forest environment. The next chapters discuss the dominant biological patterns of species ranging from the distinctive elephants, gorillas, and okapi to the less well known birds, butterflies, and amphibians. Other chapters focus on how such different groups as hunter-gatherers, forest farmers, bushmeat hunters, recent immigrants, and commercial foresters have used the forests. Several authors stress the need for tighter links between research and conservation action. The final section draws lessons from the collective experience of those working in an Africa wracked by political strife and economic hardship.
Author | : Peter P. Schweitzer |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Conflict management |
ISBN | : 9781571811011 |
In light of negotiations now going on between people who rely on wild plants and animals and the governments of their territories about civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights, anthropologists explore dimensions of culture and pressures as they are manifested in particular peoples. Their 27 papers, from an August 1993 conference in Moscow, Russian, cover warfare and conflict resolution; resistance, identity, and the state; ecology, demography, and market issues; gender and representation; and world-view and religious determination. The examples come from most of the world's continents. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This publication contains 14 case studies which detail successful examples of sustainable forest management practices identified and demonstrate the evolution of the forest sector in Central Africa. This is part of an initiative, undertaken within the framework of the FAO/Netherlands Partnership Programme and in close collaboration with regional and international organisations, to highlight the numerous efforts undertaken in forest management over the last 20 years to promote all aspects of sustainable development.
Author | : Richard Brent Peterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN | : |