Publisher's Synopsis
Forestry is a complex, highly differentiated, dynamic and perpetually contested ?culture? of resource management and use. As such it is an integral part of the continual (re)making of African landscape and society. This book explores the varied contexts and complicated processes of regional forestry-related ?negotiations?; the latter?s material and non-material outcomes; and the intricate but fluid relations in which such negotiations are embedded and through which they are sustained. Ultimately, Contesting Forestry in West Africa addresses the regulation of the ecological and environmental in the realm of the social and cultural; and demonstrates how these different realms (re-)shape each other in the elaboration of a regional 'forestry' and its associated landscapes.
