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Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty-first Century

Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty-first Century

Brechin, Steven R.
Wilshusen, Peter R.
Fortwangler, Crystal L.

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0791457761
ISBN13: 9780791457764
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 28 2003
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.82 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Contends that effective biological conservation and social justice must go hand in hand.

How can the international conservation movement protect biological diversity, while at the same time safeguarding the rights and fulfilling the needs of people, particularly the poor? Contested Nature argues that to be successful in the long-term, social justice and biological conservation must go hand in hand. The protection of nature is a complex social enterprise, and much more a process of politics, and of human organization, than ecology. Although this political complexity is recognized by practitioners, it rarely enters into the problem analyses that inform conservation policy. Structured around conceptual chapters and supporting case studies that examine the politics of conservation in specific contexts, the book shows that pursuing social justice enhances biodiversity conservation rather than diminishing it, and that the fate of local peoples and that of conservation are completely intertwined.

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