The Social Lives of Forests: Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence
Editat de Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison, Christine Padochen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 mar 2014
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 Forestsattempts 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.
Focusing on the history and current use of woodlands from India to the Amazon,The Social Lives of Forestsattempts 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226322667
ISBN-10: 0226322661
Pagini: 512
Ilustrații: 34 halftones, 13 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226322661
Pagini: 512
Ilustrații: 34 halftones, 13 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Susanna
B.
Hechtis
professor
in
the
Luskin
School
of
Public
Affairs
and
the
Institute
of
the
Environment
and
Sustainability
at
the
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles,
and
author
ofThe
Scramble
for
the
Amazon
and
the
“Lost
Paradise”
of
Euclides
da
Cunha.Kathleen
D.
Morrisonis
the
Sally
and
Alvin
V.
Shoemaker
Professor
of
Anthropology
and
department
chair
at
the
University
of
Pennsylvania.
She
is
the
author
or
editor
of
several
volumes,
includingDaroji
Valley:
Landscape
History,
Place,
and
the
Making
of
a
Dryland
Reservoir
System.Christine
Padochis
the
research
director
of
forests
and
livelihoods
at
the
Center
for
International
Forestry
Research,
Indonesia.
Cuprins
List
of
Illustrations Acknowledgments
1
From
Fragmentation
to
Forest
Resurgence:
Paradigms,
Representations,
and
Practices
·Susanna
B.
Hecht,
Kathleen
D.
Morrison,
and
Christine
Padoch
PART
I.
CONCEPTUAL
FRAMEWORKS
Rethinking
Social
Lives
and
Forest
Transitions:
History,
Ideologies,
Institutions,
and
the
Matrix
·Susanna
B.
Hecht
2
False
Forest
History,
Complicit
Social
Analysis:
Rethinking
Some
West
African
Environmental
Narratives
·James
Fairhead
and
Melissa
Leach
3
Stories
of
Nature’s
Hybridity
in
Europe:
Implications
for
Forest
Conservation
in
the
Global
South
·Roderick
P.
Neumann
4
Adam
Smith
in
the
Forest
·Fredrik
Albritton
Jonsson
5
Jungles,
Forests,
and
the
Theatre
of
Wars:
Insurgency,
Counterinsurgency,
and
the
Political
Forest
in
Southeast
Asia
·Nancy
Lee
Peluso
and
Peter
Vandergeest
6
Mutant
Ecologies:
Radioactive
Life
in
Post–Cold
War
New
Mexico
·Joseph
Masco
7
Pan-Tropical
Perspectives
on
Forest
Resurgence
·Alan
Grainger
8
The
Social
Lives
of
Forest
Transitions
and
Successions:
Theories
of
Forest
Resurgence ·Susanna
B.
Hecht
9
Paradigms
Lost:
Tropical
Conservation
under
Late
Capitalism ·John
Vandermeer
andIvette
Perfecto
10 Effects
of
Human
Activities
on
Successional
Pathways:
Case
Studies
from
Lowland
Wet
Forests
of
Northeastern
Costa
Rica ·Robin
L.
Chazdon,
Braulio
Vilchez
Alvarado,
Susan
Letcher,
Amanda
Wendt,
and
Uzay
Sezen
PART
II:
HISTORICAL
ECOLOGIES
Human-Forest
Relationships
and
the
Erasure
of
History ·Kathleen
D.
Morrison
11 Constructing
Nature:
Socio-Natural
Histories
of
an
Indian
Forest ·Kathleen
D.
Morrison
and
Mark
T.
Lycett
12 Culturing
the
Rainforest:
The
Kelabit
Highlands
of
Sarawak ·Monica
Janowski,
Huw
Barton,
and
Samantha
Jones
13 Residual
Effects
of
Agroforestry
Activities
at
Dos
Hombres,
a
Classic
Period
Maya
Site
in
Belize ·David
L.
Lentz
and
Brian
Lane
14 Forest
as
Faunal
Enclave:
Endangerment,
Ecology,
and
Exclusion
in
India ·Mahesh
Rangarajan
15 Amazonia:
The
Historical
Ecology
of
a
Domesticated
Landscape ·Clark
L.
Erickson
PART
III:
MARKET
DYNAMICS
Market
Dynamics
and
Regional
Change ·Nicholas
K.
Menzies
16 The
Fate
of
the
Branded
Forest:
Science,
Violence,
and
Seduction
in
the
World
of
Teak ·Raymond
L.
Bryant
17 Gendered
Knowledge
and
the
African
Shea-Nut
Tree ·Judith
Carney
and
Marlène
Elias
18 Ancient
Forest
Tea:
How
Globalization
Turned
Backward
Minorities
into
Green
Marketing
Innovators ·Nicholas
K.
Menzies
19 The
Production
of
Forests:
Tree
Cover
Transitions
in
Northern
Thailand,
Northern
Laos,
and
Southern
China ·Jefferson
Fox
20 From
Swidden
to
Rubber:
Transforming
Landscape
and
Livelihoods
in
Mountainous
Northern
Laos ·Yayoi
Fujita
Lagerqvist
PART
IV:
INSTITUTIONS
Institutions:
The
Secret
Lives
of
Forests ·Susanna
B.
Hecht
21 A
Forest
for
My
Kingdom?
“Forest
Rent”
and
the
Politics
of
History
in
Asante
(Ghana) ·Sara
Berry
22 The
Invisible
Map:
Community
Tenure
Rights ·Deborah
Barry
and
Ruth
Meinzen-Dick
23 Re-Greening
the
Sahel:
Linking
Adaptation
to
Climate
Change,
Poverty
Reduction,
and
Sustainable
Development
in
Drylands ·Chris
Reij
PART
V:
THE
URBAN
MATRIX
Urban
Ecologies ·Christine
Padoch
24 Amazonia
1492:
Pristine
Forest
or
Cultural
Parkland? ·Michael
J.
Heckenberger,
Afukaka
Kuikuro,
Urissap’a
Tabata
Kuikuro,
J.
Christian
Russell,
Morgan
Schmidt,
Carlos
Fausto,
and
Bruna
Franchetto
25 Urban
Residence,
Rural
Employment,
and
the
Future
of
Amazonian
Forests
·Christine
Padoch,
Angela
Steward,
Miguel
Pinedo-Vasquez,
Louis
Putzel,and
Medardo
Miranda
Ruiz
26 From
Fallow
Timber
to
Urban
Housing:
Family
Forestry
andTablillaProduction
in
Peru ·Robin
R.
Sears
and
Miguel
Pinedo-Vasquez
27 Forest
Resources,
City
Services:
Globalization,
Household
Networks,
and
Urbanization
in
the
Amazon
Estuary ·Eduardo
S.
Brondizio,
Andrea
D.
Siqueira,
and
Nathan
Vogt
28 Chicago
Wilderness:
Integrating
Biological
and
Social
Diversity
in
the
Urban
Garden ·Peter
Crane,
Liam
Heneghan,
Francie
Muraski-Stotz,
Melinda
Pruett-Jones,
Laurel
Ross,
Alaka
Wali,
and
Lynne
Westphal
Recenzii
“The
Social
Lives
of
Forestsoffers
sophisticated,
positive
perspectives
on
forests
around
the
world.
The
authors’
stimulating
ideas
address
important
questions
of
forest
dynamics
and
management.
They
also
apply
to
the
creation
of
working
landscapes
that
offer
space
for
people
and
nature
everywhere.”
“A
new
book
of
essays,
by
academics
from
several
nations,
.
.
.
attempts
to
reverse
the
conventional
wisdom
about
the
state
of
the
world’s
forests.The
Social
Lives
of
Forests.
.
.
captures
an
emergent
trend
in
research:
that
while
deforestation
does
occur,
there
is
roughly
as
much
reforestation
occurring.
While
the
writers
say
more
work
needs
to
be
done,
they
say
that
so
far,
the
evidence
either
for
or
against
net
deforestation
is
inconclusive.
This,
of
course,
has
implications
for
forestry
and
agricultural
policy.”
“A
common
thread
inThe
Social
Lives
of
Forestsis
a
criticism
of
nature
set-asides
as
the
default
conservation
model.
.
.
.
More
people
doesn’t
necessarily
mean
less
forest
and
never
has.
.
.
.
These
are
contentious,
even
radical,
arguments.”
“Traditional
conservation-based
approaches
seek
to
separate
humans
from
the
environment,
but
the
authors
offer
a
vision
of
land
management
based
on
an
understanding
of
human
and
environmental
interactions
occurring
in
a
rich,
interspersed
matrix.
This
understanding
has
important
implications
for
future
forest
management
that
seeks
to
balance
carbon
sequestration,
biodiversity
conservation,
and
human
use.
The
depth
of
scholarship
and
the
interdisciplinary
approach
make
this
work
an
important
contribution
to
the
subjects
of
forest
management,
conservation,
ecology,
and
environmental
history.
.
.
.
Highly
recommended.”
“With
twenty-eight
chapters
and
500
pages,
this
is
a
dense
book—and
a
valuable
and
welcome
one.
.
.
.
Compared
to
many
earlier
works,
this
book’s
strength
and
original
contribution
is
about
going
much
deeper
on
the
description
and
explanation
of
the
human
and
social
forces
that
lie
behind
these
‘novel
ecosystems.’
.
.
.
The
ecology
of
disturbed
forests
is
of
course
a
fundamental
issue,
but
here
we
have
a
strong,
multidisciplinary,
multi-focused
work
which
definitely
establishes
that
social
forces
giving
rise
to
human-modified
forests
cannot
anymore
remain
a
fringe
topic
in
sustainability
sciences.
This
book
is
a
valuable
reader
for
scholars
and
students
interested
in
political
ecology,
restoration
ecology,
land
change
science,
and,
more
broadly,
studies
of
social-ecological
systems.”
“Through
careful
editorship,
in
particular
the
introductions
to
each
of
the
book’s
five
parts,
Hecht,
Morrison,
and
Padoch
show
how
a
social
science
approach
to
forests
necessarily
covers
a
large
number
of
issues,
from
those
that
are
purely
theoretical
or
conceptual,
to
those
that
are
more
policy-orientated.
The
twenty-eight
chapters,
all
written
by
authors
of
leading
works
on
tropical
and
temperate
forests,
seek
to
debunk
once
and
for
all
a
number
of
popular
and
scientific
myths
concerning
the
relationship
between
forests
and
peoples.
.
.
.
There
is
no
doubt
that
this
rich
volume
represents
an
excellent
and
lasting
introduction
to
the
social
lives
of
forests
in
the
contemporary
world.”
“Reiterates
the
importance
of
understanding
both
manmade
and
natural
changes
in
forested
landscapes
before
conservation
issues
can
be
effectively
addressed.
.
.
.
An
important
book
for
environmental
scholars,
practicing
ecologists,
and
conservation
biologists,
especially
those
who
are
working
on
issues
at
the
interface
of
human
society
and
natural
ecosystems.
Development
practitioners,
activists,
and
policy
makers
will
also
find
this
book
useful
to
broaden
their
perspectives
on
human-nature
linkages.”
“The
Social
Lives
of
Forestsshould
have
a
strong
and
positive
influence
on
the
fields
of
ecology,
conservation,
environmental
history,
and
many
social
sciences.
A
clear
message
emerges
that
established
views
and
conservation
approaches
based
on
seeing
people
as
separate
from
nature—or
viewing
the
land
as
divided
into
the
pristine
and
wild
versus
the
humanized
and
despoiled—are
erroneous
and
doomed
to
generate unsuccessful
policies and
approaches
to
stewardship.
These
are
not
novel
ideas,
but
this
volume
is
unusual
and
valuable
in
making
a
forceful
case
for
their
validity
based
on
work
from
many
different
landscapes
and
cultures
and
a
great
diversity
of
environmental
and
historical
conditions.”
“Forests
are
complex
ecological
entities,
but
they
are
also
cultural,
historical,
political,
and
social,
all
at
once.
Above
all,
say
the
contributors
to
this
excellent
volume,
forests
are
working
landscapes
with
multiple
lives
and
livelihoods.The
Social
Lives
of
Forestsbrings
together
a
posse
of
the
world’s
leading
scholars
of
forests
who
challenge
us
to
think
about
trees
and
people
in
entirely
new
ways.
This
book
is
an
exhilarating
and
intellectually
capacious
exploration
of
forests
as
biomes
and
as
artifacts.
A
bravura
piece
of
social
science
scholarship.”
“Very
engaging.The
Social
Lives
of
Forestsoffers
a
must-read,
highly
interdisciplinary
perspective
yielding
fresh,
rich
insight
and
incisive
accounts
of
a
global
swath
of
sustainability
issues
and
politics
surrounding
forests
and
their
current
and
future
management,
markets,
policies,
cultures,
and
conservation
along
with
their
incredible
past
histories.
A
joy.”
“An
all-too-uncommon
union
of
the
hard
and
social
sciences,The
Social
Lives
of
Forestsis
a
groundbreaking
work
that
reframes
both
the
history
of
the
world’s
forest
lands
and
the
debate
over
their
future.
Stressing
the
centuries-long
human
role
in
the
creation
and
maintenance
of
wooded
landscapes,
and
their
relation
to
both
rural
and
urban
life
in
the
globalized
world
of
today
and
in
the
past,
the
articles
in
this
book
collectively
provide
a
new
way
to
think
about
forest
ecosystems
and
their
inhabitants.
This
is
a
book
that
will
surprise
and
inform
historians,
ecologists,
foresters,
environmentalists—and
anyone
who
cares
about
the
forests
around
us.”