People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation

Published by Columbia University Press 2000

People, Plants, and Justice

The Politics of Nature Conservation

Edited by: Charles Zerner

https://doi.org/10.7312/zern10810

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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, Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." 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.

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.

Author / Editor information

Charles Zerner is a visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Law and Society and adjunct professor at the Draper Program in Humanities and Social thought at NYU and adjunct professor at the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University.

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J. Elliott:
A timely book that will contribute significantly to the worldwide effort to right the wrongs that are being done.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
PART I. Across the Terrain
INTRODUCTION: Toward a Broader Vision of Justice and Nature Conservation Charles Zerner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER 1. Contested Communities, Malignant Markets, and Gilded Governance: Justice, Resource Extraction, and Conservation in the Tropics Michael J. Watts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
CHAPTER 2. Beyond Distributive Justice: Resource Extraction and Environmental Justice in the Tropics Richard A. Schroeder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
PART II.On Location: Case Studies
CHAPTER 3 Justice for Whom? Contemporary Images of Amazonia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
CHAPTER 4. Outrage in Rubber and Oil: Extractivism, Indigenous Peoples, and Justice in the Upper Amazon Søren Hvalkof Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
CHAPTER 5. Land, Justice, and the Politics of Conservation in Tanzania Roderick P. Neumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
CHAPTER 6. Rebellion, Representation, and Enfranchisement in the Forest Villages of Makacoulibantang, Eastern Senegal Jesse C. Ribot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
CHAPTER 7. The Damar Agroforests of Krui, Indonesia: Justice for Forest Farmers Geneviève Michon, Hubert de Foresta, Kusworo Levang and Patrice Levang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
CHAPTER 8. Tropical Forests Forever? A Contextual Ecology of Bentian Rattan Agroforestry Systems Stephanie Gorson Fried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
CHAPTER 9. Global Markets, Local Injustice in Southeast Asian Seas: The Live Fish Trade and Local Fishers in the Togean Islands of Sulawesi Celia Lowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
CHAPTER 10. Exploitation of Gaharu, and Forest Conservation Efforts in the Kayan Mentarang National Park, East Kalimantan, Indonesia Frank Momberg, Rajindra Puri and Timothy Jessup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
CHAPTER 11. The Meaning of the Manatee: An Examination of Community-Based Ecotourism Discourse and Practice in Gales Point, Belize Jill M. Belsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
CHAPTER 12. Profits, Prunus, and the Prostate: International Trade in Tropical Bark Anthony Balfour Cunningham and Michelle Cunningham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
CHAPTER 13. A Tale of Two Villages: Culture, Conservation, and Ecocolonialism in Samoa Paul Alan Cox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
CHAPTER 14. One in Ten Thousand? The Cameroon Case of Ancistrocladus korupensis Sarah A. Laird, A. B. Cunningham and Estherine Lisinge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
CHAPTER 15. The Fate of the Collections: Social Justice and the Annexation of Plant Genetic Resources Bronwyn Parry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	374
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 416

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Published: July 18, 2000
ISBN: 9780231506694