Living with tropical forests
SIST P., DOUMENGE C., GOND V., TASSIN J., TRÉBUCHON J.-F., 2021. LIVING WITH TROPICAL FORESTS. FRENCH EDITION. MUSEO, CIRAD, 216 P.
What could be more complex than the tropical forest and the relationships that humans have with it? Yet, or rather because of this, clichés, shortcuts, misunderstandings and even misunderstandings abound in discourses that are too readily simplistic.
The aim of this book, conceived and written by a team of researchers, is on the contrary, without jargon or condescension, to give an account of the respective imbrications between humans and tropical forests. Only by taking these interdependencies into account can we hope to save the joint future of humans and forests. The aim of this book is therefore to enter the forest with them, not to leave them on the edge...
The authors of this book belong to the Forests and Societies research unit of the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). These researchers come from a variety of disciplines, from ecology to anthropology, and are familiar with the large tropical forest regions, whose landscapes and peoples they know well.
The book is organised in three parts dealing with the specificities of the three tropical continents (Africa, America and Asia), preceded by a general presentation of tropical forests and followed by a set of perspectives for the forests and the people who live there. For each topic, we have chosen to deliver a specific message without falling into the trap of an encyclopaedia.
