Things Fall Apart? : The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria

✍ Scribed by Pauline Von Hellermann

Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 206
Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Ser.
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

BUS070010; POL000000; SOC026000

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Things Fall Apart?: The Political Ecolog

📁 Things Fall Apart?: The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria

✍ Pauline von Hellermann 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Berghahn Books 🌐 English

<p> 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 f

The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeri

📁 The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria

✍ Elisha P. Renne 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Indiana University Press 🌐 English

First runner-up, 2011 Nigerian Studies Association Book Prize In 2008, Northern Nigeria had the greatest number of confirmed cases of polio in the world and was the source of outbreaks in several West African countries. Elisha P. Renne explores the politics and social dynamics of the Northern Niger

Parties and Politics in Northern Nigeria

📁 Parties and Politics in Northern Nigeria

✍ B. J. Dudley 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

The Unseen Things : Women, Secrecy, and

📁 The Unseen Things : Women, Secrecy, and HIV in Northern Nigeria

✍ Kathryn A. Rhine 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Indiana University Press 🌐 English

What do HIV-positive women in Nigeria face as they seek meaningful lives with a deeply discrediting disease? Kathryn A. Rhine uncovers the skillful ways women defuse concerns about their wellbeing and the ability to maintain their households. Rhine shows how this ethic of concealment involves maskin

Politics of forests : northern forest-in

📁 Politics of forests : northern forest-industrial regimes in the age of globalization

✍ Ari Aukusti Lehtinen (editor); Jakob Donner-Amnell (editor); Bjørnar Sæther (edi 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Dictators and Democracy in African Devel

📁 Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria

✍ A. Carl LeVan 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

What are the conditions for good governance in Africa, and why do many democracies still struggle with persistent poverty? Drawing on a historical study of Nigeria since independence, this book argues that the structure of the policy-making process explains variations in government performance bette