Book review: Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-savanna Mosaic. J. Fairhead & M. Leach, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. ISBN 0-521-56499-9, £16·95 (paperback); 0-521-56353-4, £50·00 (hardback), xviii + 354 pp.
✍ Scribed by M. Stocking
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 57 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1085-3278
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✦ Synopsis
use rather than uncover the `real-world' political concerns of how each policy emerged in regard to state ± NGO ± business con¯icts. In addition, it does not address the enforcement of state policies, local environmental management topics or the construction of political infrastructure to allow environmental management on a holistic and participatory basis. As a result, many readers may ®nd the book rather shallow in its political analysis, and somewhat abstract in its analysis of the impacts of state policy on resource degradation. However, it provides a useful summary of recent Philippine resource policy, plus statistics of historic resource use, particularly logging.
The two volumes demonstrate the value of ISEAS in providing empirical information from South East Asia swiftly to readers outside the region. However, in these two cases, these books are more likely to be used as local examples of wider debates ± rather than long-term, in-depth research that can help shape those debates.