Saving Forests, Protecting People? - Environmental Conservation in Central America

Informationen zum Autor By John Schelhas and Max J. Pfeffer Klappentext By examining the connections among local values, material needs, and environmental management regimes, Saving Forests, Protecting People? explores that difficult terrain where culture, the environment, and social policies meet. Zusammenfassung By examining the connections among local values! material needs! and environmental management regimes! Saving Forests! Protecting People? explores that difficult terrain where culture! the environment! and social policies meet. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: Parks and protected areas in the process of environmental globalizationStudy SitesDiverse cultural models to manage competing interests in natural resource use in Costa RicaForest conservation, park management, and value change in HondurasConclusion: Situating environmental values in a globalizing worldAppendices 1-5

Product details

• Authors: Max J. Pfeffer, John Schelhas
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2009
• EAN: 9780759109476
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-0947-6
• Series: Globalization and the Environm; Globalization and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works