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"Prehistory of Southern African Forestry: From Vegetable Garden to Tree Plantation"
This paper explores the history of trees and scientific forestry in South Africa and how it changed southern African hydrologies.
This paper explores the history of trees and scientific forestry in South Africa and how it changed southern African hydrologies.
Through a case study of the “invasive alien species” (IAS) narrative in South Africa, Susanna Lidström, Simon West, Tania Katzschner, M. Isabel Pérez-Ramos, and Hedley Twidle suggest that IAS oversimplifies the webs of ecological, biological, economic, and cultural relations to a simple “good” versus “bad” battle between easily discernible “natural” and “nonnatural” identities.