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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 13680 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the author: KEY WORDS: Mali, desertification, botany, Gilletiodendron glandulosum, Guibourtia copallifera, conservation, biogeographyCitation Details
Title: Symbols, not data: rare trees and vegetation history in Mali.
Author: Chris S. Duvall
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: 169 Issue: 4 Page: 295(18)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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The Geographical Journal, Vol. 169, No. 4, December 2003, pp. 295-312
Introduction Broad-scale generalized theories of landscape change such as desertification and allied concepts such as savannization have profoundly influenced institutional approaches to agricultural development and natural resource conservation in West Africa. While many authors have insightfully examined the historic and current development of such theories and their institutional effects in West Africa (e.g. Binns 1990; Benjaminsen 1993 1997a; Thomas 1993; Agnew 1995; Swift 1996; Fairhead and Leach 1996 1998; Mortimore 1998; Conte 1999; Bassett and Koli Bi 2000), few have examined how they have also shaped modern (1) botany. Theories of anthropogenic, negative landscape change in West Africa are partially based on a colonial-era botanical hypothesis of...
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