Deforestation in western Madagascar: Understanding the past, reframing the present

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• Ivan Scales, Department of Geography
• Friday 30 May 2008, 13:00-14:00
• First Floor Seminar Room, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

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Through the use of colonial reports, aerial photographs, maps and satellite imagery, I have reconstructed the landscape of the Menabe region of western Madagascar between 1896 and 2005. My empirical findings show that there is a long history of forest loss in western Madagascar and that deforestation has been driven by the expansion of agriculture, which has occured in a number of booms linked to broader political and economic processes.

This talk is part of the Ecology Lunchtime Series series.

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