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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Studies in environment and history
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Studies in environment and history.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and premodern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and premodern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans- in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and reimagined in the face of ongoing processes of change"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 The Ends of Nature and Culture; The Myth of Cultures Environmental Domination and the End of Nature; The Myth of the Natural; Post-Domestication Environments; Environmental Infrastructure and Environing; Environing in North-Central Namibia; 2 Architects of Nature; Wilderness Gardens; Fruit Trees and People; The Fruit Tree Frontier; Farms and Fields as Tree Nurseries; Maintaining Select Trees in Fields; Conclusion; 3 Dark Earths; Environmental Infrastructure and Dark Earth Spaces; Huts and Fences as Environmental Infrastructure. |
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Making Dark EarthDark Earth and Raised Fields: Drainage and Irrigation; Dark Earths: Environmental Infrastructure and Soil History; 4 Water and Woodland Harvesting; Water Environmental Infrastructure; Wells and Water Holes; Preserving and Rationing Water; Woodland Coppice, Clones, and Environmental Infrastructure; Woodland Harvesting; Conclusion; 5 Browsing and Burning Regimes; Livestock and Browse; Cultivating the Bush with Goats; Cultivating with Fire; Conclusion; 6 Valuing Environmental Infrastructure and the Myth of Natural Resource Management; Paying for Environmental Infrastructure. |
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Valuing and Owning TreesValuing and Owning Water; The Myth of Natural Resources Management; Conclusion; 7 Science and the Failure to Conquer Nature; Colonial Science and Environmental Planning; Colonial Artifice and Environmental Infrastructure; Colonial Water Technology and Environmental Change; Colonial Science and Plantation Forestry; Conclusion; Conclusion; Processes of Environing; Operationalizing Environing; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Namibia -- Environmental conditions.
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Namibia. |
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Environmental conditions. |
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Human ecology -- Namibia -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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History. |
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Natural resources -- Namibia -- Management -- History.
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Natural resources. |
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Management. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kreike, Emmanuel, 1959- Environmental infrastructure in African history 9781107001510 (DLC) 2012031962 (OCoLC)808008597 |
| ISBN |
9781107336339 (electronic book) |
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1107336333 (electronic book) |
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9781107333017 (electronic book) |
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1107333016 (electronic book) |
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1139026127 (electronic book) |
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9781139026123 (electronic book) |
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9781107334670 |
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1107334675 |
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9781107001510 (hardback) |
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110700151X (hardback) |
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