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The Social Lives of Forests - Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence (Paperback)
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The Social Lives of Forests - Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence (Paperback)
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Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature
face--including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation--are
the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these
assumptions into question, revealing forests' past, present, and
future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and
cultural forces. Moreover, in many cases the coalescence of these
forces--from local ecologies to competing knowledge systems--has
masked a significant contemporary trend of woodland resurgence,
even in the forests of the tropics. Focusing on the history and
current use of woodlands from India to the Amazon, The Social Lives
of Forests attempts to build a coherent view of forests sited at
the nexus of nature, culture, and development. With chapters
covering the effects of human activities on succession patterns in
now-protected Costa Rican forests; the intersection of gender and
knowledge in African shea nut tree markets; and even the
unexpectedly rich urban woodlands of Chicago, this book explores
forests as places of significant human action, with complex
institutions, ecologies, and economies that have transformed these
landscapes in the past and continue to shape them today. From rain
forests to timber farms, the face of forests--how we define,
understand, and maintain them--is changing.
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