In this study I trace the historical political ecology of Bras d’Eau, a nineteenth-century colonial sugar estate, twentieth-century forest plantation, and contemporary National Park in Mauritius. Via archaeological studies, documentary records, reconstruction of ecological landscapes, and ethnographic interviews, the study shows how environmental and climatic ideologies, structures of power and inequality, and community values intersected to produce the built environment of today’s National Park. Despite massive deforestation and degradation caused by colonial and postcolonial ecological strategies, newly formed forest reserves have become integral to island and community resilience.

在这项研究中，我追溯了 Bras d'Eau、19 世纪殖民糖业庄园、20 世纪森林种植园和毛里求斯当代国家公园的历史政治生态。通过考古研究、文献记录、生态景观重建和民族志访谈，该研究展示了环境和气候意识形态、权力和不平等结构以及社区价值观如何相互交叉，从而产生了今天的国家公园的建筑环境。尽管殖民和后殖民生态战略造成了大规模的森林砍伐和退化，但新形成的森林保护区已成为岛屿和社区复原力不可或缺的一部分。