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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Conservation for Whom? 2 -- Limitations of Imported Knowledge 4 -- Thinking About Our Thinking 5 -- Limitations of Indigenous Technical Knowledge 6 -- Decolonizing the Mind: Beyond ITK Toward Afrocentricity 8 -- Afrocentricity and the Environment 9 -- Tale of the Microhydro and the Mami Wata 10 -- Bridge Blueprints 13 -- 2 Central African Land Ethics: Theoretical Questions and Research Perspectives 21 -- Ecology, Values, and Value Transformation 22 -- Environmental Ethics in Global Perspective 23 -- Environmental Ethics in Central Africa 24 -- Universalism and Pluralism: The "One/Many Problem" 26 -- Is Nature Normative? Premodern World Views and Postmodern Ecological Science 29 -- What Is Africa? Listening to Local People's Voices 38 -- So What? Central African Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice 43 -- Repair and Reconstruction: Signs of Hope Grounded in African Soil 47 -- Methods and Research Process 48 -- 3 Narratives on Nature: An Opening Conversation with Ubangian Farmers 60 -- A Narrative Approach 62 -- Loko: Amid Forest and Savanna 63 -- Bogofo: An Initial Group Discussion 68 -- 4 Parts of a Whole: Nature, Society, and Cosmology in the Ubangi 86 -- Making a Living: Implicit Means of Conservation 87 -- Living with Neighbors: The Individual-Community Relationship 106 -- Living with Meaning in an Interconnected World 117 -- 5 Reservations About Nature Reserves: Local Voices on Conservation in the Ituri 147 -- Background: The Ituri Forest 148 -- From Mambasa to Epulu 151 -- Badengaido: Living Within the RFO 158 -- Mbuti Perspectives on the Forest and the RFO 190 -- Bapukele Elders: "The Animals Have Received Their Independence and Are Destroying Our Food" 208 -- Upshot 214 -- Paulin Mboya: "If Local People Don't Support the Reserve, It Will Fail" 217 -- 6 One Step Removed: The Voices of University-Educated Project Staff and Local Academics 225 -- Voices of Contrast 227 -- Searching for Common Ground 241 -- 7 Conclusion: Lessons for Environmental Practice, Theory, and Ethics 253 -- Loko, the CEUM, and Individual-Community Relations 254 -- Epulu, the RFO, and Human-Environment Relations 259 |
| Summary |
A rich, interdisciplinary study of Central African land ethics incorporating conversations with local rainforest inhabitants that yield vibrant new insights into the dilemmas of sustaining Africa's rainforests and its people |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics -- Africa, Central
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Environmental protection -- Africa, Central
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Human ecology -- Africa, Central
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Environmental ethics.
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Environmental protection.
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Human ecology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Central Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0429037023 |
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0429701519 |
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0429721528 |
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0429741537 |
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9780429037023 |
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9780429701511 |
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9780429721526 |
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9780429741531 |
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