Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains

by Christopher A. Conte

Book Overview

For more than a century, the world has recognized the extraordinary biological diversity of the forests of Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. As international attention has focused on forest conservation, farmers, foresters, biologists, and the Tanzanian state have realized that only complex negotiations will save these treasured, but rapidly disappearing, landscapes. Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821415549
• ISBN13: 9780821415542
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"