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245 10 a| Environmental infrastructure in African historyh| [electronic resource] :b| examining the myth of natural resource management in Namibia /c| Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University.;

260 a| Cambridge :b| Cambridge University Press,c| 2013.;

300 a| xviii, 242 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

490 0 a| Studies in environment and history;

500 a| Includes index.;

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520 a| "Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and premodern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and premodern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans- in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and reimagined in the face of ongoing processes of change"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Environmental infrastructure in African history examining the myth of natural resource management in Namibia / Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University.

Author/creator	Kreike, Emmanuel, 1959-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description	xviii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Human ecology--Namibia. --History. Natural resources--Namibia. --Management. --History. Namibia--Environmental conditions.

Series	Studies in environment and history
Contents	Machine generated contents note: 1. The ends of nature and culture; 2. Architects of nature; 3. Dark earths: field and farm environmental infrastructure; 4. Water and woodland harvesting: village environmental infrastructure; 5. Browse and burn: bush savanna as environmental infrastructure; 6. Valuing environmental infrastructure and the myth of natural resources management; 7. Science and the failure to conquer nature: environing and the modern west; Conclusion.
Abstract	"Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and premodern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and premodern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans- in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and reimagined in the face of ongoing processes of change"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	Includes index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012031962
ISBN	9781107001510 (hardback)

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