Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar

摘要: Long considered both best friend and worst enemy to humankind, fire is at once creative destructive. In the endangered tropical paradise of Madagascar, two faces fires have fueled a century-long conflict between rural farmers island leaders. For farmers, wildland burning plays key role in sustaining their agricultural livelihood maintaining control island's rangelands, croplands, woodlands. government, chief threat economic development environmental stability. Isle Fire, Christian Kull argues that antifire polemics Madagascar's leadership are misdirected most dangerous conflagration blaze fanned by disagreements outside authorities farmers. Based on fieldwork Malagasy villages thorough archival investigation, this volume offers detailed analysis why Madagascar has always been atlame, it will be aflame, ultimately, as argues, should aflame.