This title was first published in 2000. This study looks at the contestation of forestry in West Africa, taking into account historical considerations, cultural negotiations and environmental issues.
List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, PART I: INTRODUCTION, 1. Constructing, Contesting and Situating Forestry in West Africa: An Introduction, PART II: HISTORICAL CONTESTATIONS, Introduction, 2. Representing West African Forests in British Imperial Discourse c.1830-1900, 3. Redefining Forestry Space and Threatening Livelihoods in Colonial Northern Nigeria, 4. Shaping Socio-Ecological and Historical Knowledge of Deforestation in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Togo, PART III: CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS, Introduction, 5. Trees and the Domestication of Power in Asante Thought, 6. Forest Spirits and the Negotiation of Ethnicity and Gender among the Jola, 7. Community, Forestry and Conditionally in The Gambia, PART IV: INSTITUTIONAL MEDIATIONS, Introduction, 8. Assessing Conservation-with-Development in Cross River National Park, Nigeria, 9. Questioning Ownership, Management and Sustainability of Eucalyptus Plantations on Reclaimed Land on Nigeria's Jos Plateau, 10. Turning Senegal's Forestry Policy Around (From Exclusion to Participation?), PART V: ENVIRONMENTAL INTER(E)ACTIONS, Introduction, 11. Cattle and Trees in the West African Savanna, 12. The Economic and Social Dimensions of Environmental Change in Riparian Forests of the Nigerian Sahel, 13. Non-timber Forest Products in the Woody Savannas of Benin Republic, 14. Farmers, Forestry and Fractured Environmentalisms in Ghana's Forest Zones, Index
