| Description |
1 online resource (304 pages). |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
International African Library ; IAL
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International African library ; IAL.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES, PLATES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES AND ACRONYMS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. Conservation, gender and the environment -- 1. FOREST COMMUNITIES AND FOREST CONSERVATION -- 2. GENDER AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- PART TWO. Gender and resource use in the Gola forest of Sierra Leone -- 3. THE GOLA FOREST OF SIERRA LEONE -- 4. FARMING, FOOD AND FALLOWS -- 5. TREE CROPS, CASH CROPS -- 6. TIMBER AND NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS -- 7. HUNTING AND FISHING -- 8. MONEY, FOOD AND MANAGING -- 9. CONCLUSIONS: FOREST RESOURCES, FOREST FUTURES -- APPENDIX I. Research Methods -- APPENDIX II. Plant and Animal Names -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Summary |
With environmental change and conservation in West Africa's tropical rainforests becoming topics of increasing political and academic interest, this book brings a fresh set of perspectives to the debate - those of the forest dwellers themselves. Based on her detailed field research in the Mende communities around Gola North Forest reserve, and surveying the recent debates and literature concerning forest conservations and current analytical approaches to gender and the environment, Melissa Leach examines the importance of rainforest resources to the local economy and social relations and shows that neither an understanding of forest use and change, nor adequate conservation policies can be achieved without a concern for gender. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Forest conservation -- Sierra Leone.
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Forest conservation. |
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Sierra Leone. |
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Forest reserves -- Sierra Leone.
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Forest reserves. |
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Women in rural development -- Sierra Leone.
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Mende (African people) -- Social conditions.
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Mende (African people) |
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Social conditions. |
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Women in rural development. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries. |
| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| ISBN |
1474470165 |
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9781474470162 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781474470162 |
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