The Social Lives of Forests : Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence / Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison, Christine Padoch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hecht, Susanna B., Editor.

Morrison, Kathleen D., Editor.

Padoch, Christine, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forests and forestry--Social aspects--Congresses.

Forests and forestry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence: Paradigms, Representations, and Practices

2. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives

3. Stories of Nature's Hybridity in Europe: Implications for Forest Conservation in the Global South

4. Adam Smith in the Forest

5. Jungles, Forests, and the Theatre of Wars: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and the Political Forest in Southeast Asia

6. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico

7. Pan-Tropical Perspectives on Forest Resurgence

8. The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions: Theories of Forest Resurgence

9. Paradigms Lost: Tropical Conservation under Late Capitalism

10. Effects of Human Activities on Successional Pathways: Case Studies from Lowland Wet Forests of Northeastern Costa Rica

11. Constructing Nature: Socio-Natural Histories of an Indian Forest

12. Culturing the Rainforest: The Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak

13. Residual Effects of Agroforestry Activities at Dos Hombres, a Classic Period Maya Site in Belize

14. Forest as Faunal Enclave: Endangerment, Ecology, and Exclusion in India

15. Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape

16. The Fate of the Branded Forest: Science, Violence, and Seduction in the World of Teak

17. Gendered Knowledge and the African Shea-Nut Tree

18. Ancient Forest Tea: How Globalization Turned Backward Minorities into Green Marketing Innovators

19. The Production of Forests: Tree Cover Transitions in Northern Thailand, Northern Laos, and Southern China

20. From Swidden to Rubber: Transforming Landscape and Livelihoods in Mountainous Northern Laos

21. A Forest for My Kingdom? "Forest Rent" and the Politics of History in Asante (Ghana)

22. The Invisible Map: Community Tenure Rights

23. Re-Greening the Sahel: Linking Adaptation to Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainable Development in Drylands

24. Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland

25. Urban Residence, Rural Employment, and the Future of Amazonian Forests

26. From Fallow Timber to Urban Housing: Family Forestry and Tablilla Production in Peru

27. Forest Resources, City Services: Globalization, Household Networks, and Urbanization in the Amazon Estuary

28. Chicago Wilderness: Integrating Biological and Social Diversity in the Urban Garden

Notes

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

"Papers of the conference held at the University of Chicago May 30-31, 2008."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226024134

022602413X

OCLC:

871225512