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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.
List of contents
I: Across the Terrain
Introduction: Toward a Broader Vision of Justice and Nature Conservation, by Charles Zerner
1. Contested Communities, Malignant Markets, and Gilded Governance: Justice, Resource Extraction, and Conservation in the, by Michael J. Watts
2. Beyond Distributive Justice: Resource Extraction and Environmental Justice in the Tropics, by Richard A. Schroeder
II: On Location: Case Studies
3. Justice for Whom? Contemporary Images of Amazonia, by Candace Slater
4. Outrage in Rubber and Oil: Extractivism, Indigenous Peoples, and Justice in the Upper Amazon, by Soren Hvalkof
5. Land, Justice, and the Politics of Conservation in Tanzania, by Roderick P. Neumann
6. Rebellion, Representation, and Enfranchisement in the Forest Villages of Makacoulibantang, Eastern Senegal, by Jesse C. Ribot
7. The Damar Agroforests of Krui, Indonesia: Justice for Forest Farmers, by Geneviäve Michon, Hubert de Foresta, Kusworo, and Patrice Levang
8. Tropical Forests Forever? A Contextual Ecology of Bentian Rattan Agroforestry Systems, by Stephanie Gorson Fried
9. Global Markets, Local Injustice in Southeast Asian Seas: The Live Fish Trade and Local Fishers in the Togean Islands of Sulawesi, by Celia Lowe
10. Exploitation of Gaharu, and Forest Conservation Efforts in the Kayan Mentarang National Park, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, by Frank Momberg, Rajindra Puri, and Timothy Jessup
11. The Meaning of the Manatee: An Examination of Community-Based Ecotourism Discourse and Practice in Gales Point, Belize, by Jill M. Belsky
12. Profits, Prunus, and the Prostate: International Trade in Tropical Bark, by Anthony Balfour Cunningham and Michelle Cuninngham
13. A Tale of Two Villages: Culture, Conservation, and Ecocolonialism in Samoa, by Paul Alan Cox
14. One in Ten Thousand? The Cameroon Case of Ancistrocladus korupensis, by Sarah A. Laird, A. B. Cunningham, and Estherine Lisinge
15. The Fate of the Collections: Social Justice and the Annexation of Plant Genetic Resources, by Bronwyn Parry
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Edited by Charles Zerner
Summary
Probing the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes, this work asserts that there is no universal entity, "the market". It argues that analysis and remedies must be based on broader considerations of history, culture, and geography.
