Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia : The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions

Emmanuel Kreike

ISBN 10: 9004179917 / ISBN 13: 9789004179912

Published by Brill Okt 2009, 2009

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Neuware - Descriptions 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia : The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions
• Publisher: Brill Okt 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004179917
• ISBN 13: 9789004179912
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 164H x 17D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 164 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 405 grams

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Synopsis

Descriptions 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.

About the Author

Emmanuel Kreike, PhD (2006) in Forestry, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and PhD (1996) in History, Yale University, is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. He authored Re-Creating Eden: Land Use, Environment, and Society in Southern Angola and Northern Namibia (Heinemann, 2004).