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In
spite of its surging popularity with scholars and environment
conservation and management aid experts, scientific environmental
epistemology does not seem to be the answer to the forestry and
environmental problems that Africa is facing. Due to the lasting impacts
of colonialism and therefore Western scientism on Africa, at the core
of the conservation dilemma lies the conflict between scientific
conservation epistemologies and 'local'/'indigenous' conservation
epistemologies with the latter being the locals' potential workable
solution to the environmental problems haunting the continent. It is in
view of these circumstances that this book was born. The book is a
clarion call for the revival and reinstitution of indigenous
conservation and management epistemologies, not as a challenge to
Western scientific conservation epistemologies, but to complement
efforts by Western science in easing the tapestry of environmental
problems that haunt Africa and the rest of the world. This is a valuable
book for environmental conservationists, land resource managers,
political/social ecologists, environmentalists, environmental
anthropologists, environmental field workers and technicians, and
practitioners and students of conservation sciences.
spite of its surging popularity with scholars and environment
conservation and management aid experts, scientific environmental
epistemology does not seem to be the answer to the forestry and
environmental problems that Africa is facing. Due to the lasting impacts
of colonialism and therefore Western scientism on Africa, at the core
of the conservation dilemma lies the conflict between scientific
conservation epistemologies and 'local'/'indigenous' conservation
epistemologies with the latter being the locals' potential workable
solution to the environmental problems haunting the continent. It is in
view of these circumstances that this book was born. The book is a
clarion call for the revival and reinstitution of indigenous
conservation and management epistemologies, not as a challenge to
Western scientific conservation epistemologies, but to complement
efforts by Western science in easing the tapestry of environmental
problems that haunt Africa and the rest of the world. This is a valuable
book for environmental conservationists, land resource managers,
political/social ecologists, environmentalists, environmental
anthropologists, environmental field workers and technicians, and
practitioners and students of conservation sciences.
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