{"product_id":"deforestation-and-reforestation-in-namibia-the-global-consequences-of-local-contradictions-9789004179912","title":"Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia: The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Emmanuel Kreike\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Natural Resources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescriptions of the late 1800s landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area's late 1900s appearance, suggesting that little change occurred between the pre-colonial baseline and the postcolonial outcome. Yet, paradoxically, colonial conquest, population pressure, biological invasions, new technology, and economic globalization caused both dramatic deforestation and reforestation in less than a century. The paradox stems from the fact that the prevailing global environmental models obscure and homogenize the process of environmental change: different and contradictory interpretations are dismissed as alternative readings or misreadings of the same process. \u003ci\u003eDeforestation and Reforestation\u003c\/i\u003e, however, argues that the paradox highlights the need to reframe environmental change as plural processes occurring along multiple trajectories that may be dissynchronized and asymmetrical.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46891249270935,"sku":"9789004179912","price":6417.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004179912.webp?v=1770272776","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/deforestation-and-reforestation-in-namibia-the-global-consequences-of-local-contradictions-9789004179912","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}