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Contested nature : promoting international biodiversity conservation with social justice in the twenty-first century

Print Book, English, ©2003
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2003
xvi, 321 pages ; 23 cm
9780791457757, 9780791457764, 0791457753, 0791457761
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Contested nature
Politics, power, and social justice in biodiversity conservation
The winding road
Exploring the political contours of conservation
Wandering boundaries and illegal residents
Territory, nature, and culture
Unmasking the "local"
The political economy of ecotourism
Privatizing conservation
The political ecology of bioprospecting in Amazonian Ecuador
Institutions, organizations, and participatory processes
Crafting conservation globally and locally
The regional approach in Northern Madagascar
Scaling up from the grassroots
Your park, my poverty
The challenges and rewards of community-based coastal resources management
The road less traveled