4. Adam Smith in the Forest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1. From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence: Paradigms, Representations, and Practices 1
6. Part I. Conceptual Frameworks. Rethinking Social Lives and Forest Transitions: History, Ideologies, Institutions, and the Matrix
7. 2. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives 14
8. 3. Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe: Implications for Forest Conservation in the Global South 31
9. 4. Adam Smith in the Forest 45
10. 5. Jungles, Forests, and the Theatre of Wars: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and the Political Forest in Southeast Asia 55
11. 6. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post–Cold War New Mexico 70
12. 7. Pan-Tropical Perspectives on Forest Resurgence 84
13. 8. The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions: Theories of Forest Resurgence 97
14. 9. Paradigms Lost: Tropical Conservation under Late Capitalism 114
15. 10. Effects of Human Activities on Successional Pathways: Case Studies from Lowland Wet Forests of Northeastern Costa Rica 129
16. Part II. Historical Ecologies. Human-Forest Relationships and the Erasure of History
17. 11. Constructing Nature: Socio-Natural Histories of an Indian Forest 148
18. 12. Culturing the Rainforest: The Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak 161
19. 13. Residual Effects of Agroforestry Activities at Dos Hombres, a Classic Period Maya Site in Belize 173
20. 14. Forest as Faunal Enclave: Endangerment, Ecology, and Exclusion in India 190
21. 15. Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape 199
22. Part III. Market Dynamics. Market Dynamics and Regional Change
23. 16. The Fate of the Branded Forest: Science, Violence, and Seduction in the World of Teak 220
24. 17. Gendered Knowledge and the African Shea-Nut Tree 231
25. 18. Ancient Forest Tea: How Globalization Turned Backward Minorities into Green Marketing Innovators 239
26. 19. The Production of Forests: Tree Cover Transitions in Northern Thailand, Northern Laos, and Southern China 249
27. 20. From Swidden to Rubber: Transforming Landscape and Livelihoods in Mountainous Northern Laos 260
28. Part IV. Institutions. Institutions: The Secret Lives of Forests
29. 21. A Forest for My Kingdom? “Forest Rent” and the Politics of History in Asante (Ghana) 279
30. 22. The Invisible Map: Community Tenure Rights 291
31. 23. Re-Greening the Sahel: Linking Adaptation to Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainable Development in Drylands 303
32. Part V. The Urban Matrix. Urban Ecologies
33. 24. Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland 315
34. 25. Urban Residence, Rural Employment, and the Future of Amazonian Forests 322
35. 26. From Fallow Timber to Urban Housing: Family Forestry and Tablilla Production in Peru 336
36. 27. Forest Resources, City Services: Globalization, Household Networks, and Urbanization in the Amazon Estuary 348
37. 28. Chicago Wilderness: Integrating Biological and Social Diversity in the Urban Garden 362
38. Notes 379
39. References 389
40. Contributors 469
41. Index 475