Taking a unique anthropological approach, the contributors explore the management of resources in Third World development programmes, focusing on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources.

Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin are members of the Department of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Preface, Part I Bush base: forest farm, Part II Ecocosmologies, Part III Changing to order, Name index, Subject index