Governance failure and corruption are increasingly identified as
key causes of tropical deforestation. In Nigeria's Edo State, once
the showcase of scientific forestry in West Africa, large-scale
forest conversion and the virtual depletion of timber stocks are
invariably attributed to recent failures in forest management, and
are seen as yet another instance of how "things fall apart" in
Nigeria. Through an in-depth historical and ethnographic study of
forestry in Edo State, this book challenges this routine linking of
political and ecological crisis narratives. It shows that the roots
of many of today's problems lie in scientific forest management
itself, rather than its recent abandonment, and moreover that many
"illegal" local practices improve rather than reduce biodiversity
and forest cover. The book therefore challenges preconceptions
about contemporary Nigeria and highlights the need to reevaluate
current understandings of what constitutes "good governance" in
tropical forestry.
Pauline von Hellermann is Lecturer in Anthropology at
Goldsmiths, University of London. She has conducted research on
landscapes and politics in Nigeria and Tanzania and is editor of
"Multisited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the
Translocation of Research Methods" (with Simon Coleman, Routledge,
2011).
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