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World Forests from Deforestation to Transition?
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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This book addresses global and subnational issues concerning the world's forests, societies, and environment from an independent and non-governmental point of v
Reframing Deforestation
Language: en
Pages: 263
Authors: James Fairhead
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of destruction wrought by West African farmers during the twentieth century has been vastly exaggerated and glob
Deforesting the Earth
Language: en
Pages: 716
Authors: Michael Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Since humans first appeared on the earth, we've been cutting down trees for fuel and shelter. Indeed, the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests
Protecting Human Security in Africa
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Ademola Abass
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Protecting Human Security in Africa discusses some of the most potent threats to human security in Africa. It deals especially with those threats to the securit