People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation / Edition 1

by Charles Zerner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231108119
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/18/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	7.02(w) x 10.01(h) x 0.99(d)
Lexile:	1580L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table 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

Editorial Reviews

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

— J. Elliott

Northeastern Naturalist

Explores the relationships between market-based schemes for nature conservation (i.e. sustainable natural resource extraction) and issues of justice, rights, and power in specific contexts. The case studies serve to propose questions about the larger world of international conservation policy presuppositions, projects, and planning, and of thinking based on market models. Zerner (New York U. and Columbia U.) presents three contributions that discuss a broader vision of justice and nature conservation, and resource extraction, conservation, and environmental justice in the tropics. The remaining 12 articles provide on-location case studies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

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

Northeastern Naturalist - J. Elliott