| People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation Contributor(s): Zerner, Charles (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231108117 ISBN-13: 9780231108119 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2000 Annotation: All nature conservation and environmental management efforts are inevitably projects in politics. Charles Zerner and his colleagues attempt to place international nature management projects on the scales of justice, probing the social and environmental consequences of market-based approaches to conservation. Why are poor fishermen in Indonesia's biologically rich reefs of the Togean Islands blamed for the consequences of an international trade in live fish, financed by a transnational mafia supplying cyanide and allied with the military? How do images of "pristine" forests in Borneo justify governmental destruction of locally created and managed forests? Through an extraordinary array of original cases from Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific, this volume draws on history, anthropology, sociology, literature, and law to question conventional wisdom about the virtues of market-based conservation and to seek new ways to imagine alliances between advocates for justice and nature conservation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Nature | Natural Resources - Political Science | Public Policy - General |
| Dewey: 333.7 |
| LCCN: 99053777 |
| Lexile Measure: 1580 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 7.02" W x 10.01" (1.80 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and remedies must be based on broader considerations of history, culture, and geography in order to establish meaningful and lasting changes in policy and practice. Original case studies from Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the South Pacific focus on topics as diverse as ecotourism, bioprospecting, oil extraction, cyanide fishing, timber extraction, and property rights. The cases position concerns about biodiversity conservation and resource management within social justice and legal perspectives, providing new insights for students, scholars, policy professionals and donor/foundations engaged in international conservation and social justice. |
