Misreading the African landscape: society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic

Introduction 1. Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science 2. Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change 3. Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history 4. Ecology and society in a Kuranko village 5. Ecology and society in a Kissi village 6. Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions 7. Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography 8. Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy 9. Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss 10. Towards a new forest-savanna ecology and history.