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 Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia: The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xviii)   (120K)
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    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Maps
    • Photos
  • Approaches To Environmental Change (1-22)   (514K)
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    • Models Of Environmental Change
    • The Modernization Paradigm
    • The Declinist Paradigm
    • The Inclinist Paradigm
    • Paradoxes Of Environmental Change
  • Tree Castles And Population Bombs (23-46)   (2M)
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    • Tree Castles And Insecurity On The Eve Of Colonial Conquest
    • Portuguese Violence And Population Fight Into Ovamboland
    • Internal Migration In South Africa’s Ovamboland
    • Tree Castles And Deforestation In The 1920s To 1940s
    • Colonial Concerns About Overpopulation And Deforestation In The 1950s
    • Population Growth In Ovamboland
    • Woody Vegetation Resources By The Close Of The Twentieth Century
  • Conquest Of Nature: Imperial Political Ecologies (47-82)   (250K)
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    • The Political Ecology Of Insecurity
    • Indirect Environmental Rule
    • The Colonial Conquest Of Nature: Direct Environmental Rule
  • Fierce Species: Biological Imperialism (83-112)   (669K)
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    • Invading Microbes And Virgin Soil Epizootics
    • Invading Microbes And Virgin Soil Epidemics
    • A Plague Of Donkeys: Fierce Invading Equines
    • Fierce Indigenous Creatures On The Rampage
  • Guns, Hoes And Steel: Techno-Environmental Determinism (113-138)   (198K)
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    • Guns
    • Steel Tools
    • Steel Plows
    • Guns And Steel In North-Central Namibia
  • Naturalizing Cattle Culture: Colonialism As A Deglobalizing And Decommodifying Force (139-160)   (176K)
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    • The Cattle Complex And Environmental Degradation
    • Ovambo Cattle As Global Commodities
    • Cattle, Culture And Nature
    • Overstocking And Biological Time Bombs
    • Colonial Barriers: Conservation And Fences
    • Grazing Pressure And Desertification
    • Livestock And Deforestation
    • Commodification, Deglobalization And Deforestation
  • The Palenque Paradox: Beyond Nature-To-Culture (161-176)   (144K)
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    • Bush Cities And The Bush
    • ‘Bushmen’ And The Bush
  • The Ovambo Paradox And Environmental Pluralism (177-196)   (1M)
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    • Deforestation In Ovamboland
    • Reforestation In Ovamboland
    • Environmental Pluralism: Multiprocessual Asynchronous Environmental Change
  • Bibliography (197-216)   (189K)
  • Index (217-226)   (96K)