Fiddling while Madagascar burns. Deforestation discourses and highland history

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-22

  Klein, Jørgen ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ambohitantely Special Reserve; Deforestation; Discourse analysis; Environmental history; Madagascar

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 1942442882     PISSN: 00291951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00291950410004366     Document Type: Article

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