TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leach,Melissa
TI  - Rainforest Relations: Gender & Resource Use by the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone 
T2  - International African Library : IAL
SN  - 9781474470162
AV  - DT516 .R356 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Forest conservation
KW  - Sierra Leone
KW  - Forest reserves
KW  - Women in rural development
KW  - Mende (African people)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - African Studies
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES, PLATES AND TABLES --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; NOTES AND ACRONYMS --; INTRODUCTION --; PART ONE. Conservation, gender and the environment --; 1. FOREST COMMUNITIES AND FOREST CONSERVATION --; 2. GENDER AND THE ENVIRONMENT --; PART TWO. Gender and resource use in the Gola forest of Sierra Leone --; 3. THE GOLA FOREST OF SIERRA LEONE --; 4. FARMING, FOOD AND FALLOWS --; 5. TREE CROPS, CASH CROPS --; 6. TIMBER AND NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS --; 7. HUNTING AND FISHING --; 8. MONEY, FOOD AND MANAGING --; 9. CONCLUSIONS: FOREST RESOURCES, FOREST FUTURES --; APPENDIX I. Research Methods --; APPENDIX II. Plant and Animal Names --; NOTES AND REFERENCES --; GLOSSARY --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; 2; b
N2  - With environmental change and conservation in West Africa's tropical rainforests becoming topics of increasing political and academic interest, this book brings a fresh set of perspectives to the debate - those of the forest dwellers themselves. Based on her detailed field research in the Mende communities around Gola North Forest reserve, and surveying the recent debates and literature concerning forest conservations and current analytical approaches to gender and the environment, Melissa Leach examines the importance of rainforest resources to the local economy and social relations and shows that neither an understanding of forest use and change, nor adequate conservation policies can be achieved without a concern for gender
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