| Culture,
Ecology, and Politics in Gabon's Rainforest
by James F. Barnes (Editor), Michael C.
Reed (Editor), James F. Barnes (Editor)
Gabon is one
of Africa's stablest regimes, its rainforests and rivers are virtually
pristine, and it retains nearly 85% of its closed-canopy forest,
with some of the most intensively studied floral and faunal systems
in the world. However, Gabon faces a number of crucial issues
and national choices in balancing responsible conservation of
natural resources with human requirements for food, fuel, timber,
and land, with consequent impacts on biodiversity, public health,
and the channeling of economic resources to global markets. The
contributors to this volume link issues of rainforest management,
ethnic and national identity, political stability, demographic
decline, and postcolonial relations with France and the larger
world to show how Gabon embodies in microcosm the forces that
have shaped the African continent since independence while also
challenging conventional wisdom about African development.
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