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Between Preservation and Exploitation: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries

Between Preservation and Exploitation: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries

Fuentes-George, Kemi

Paperback

Series: Politics, Science, and the Environment

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceZoology

ISBN10: 0262528762
ISBN13: 9780262528764
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 25 2016
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation.

In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic development activities--bauxite mining in Jamaica and large-scale tourism and overfishing on the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. In each case, the catalyst for the campaign was information gathered and disseminated by transnational advocacy networks (TANs) of researchers, academics, and activists. Both campaigns were successful despite opposition from industry supporters. Meanwhile, simultaneous campaigns to manage land in another part of the Yucatán and to conserve migratory birds in Egypt had far less success. In this book, Kemi Fuentes-George uses these four cases to analyze factors that determine the success or failure of efforts by TANs to persuade policymakers and private sector actors in developing countries to change environmental behavior.

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