Nature Unbound

by Igoe, Jim

• ISBN13: 9781844074402
• ISBN10: 1844074404
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose.

Author Biography

Daniel Brockington is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester University, UK Rosaleen Duffy is Professor of International Politics at Manchester University, UK and author of A Trip Too Far (2002) Jim Igoe is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, USA

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xiii
Nature Unbound	p. 1
Histories and Geographies of Protected Areas	p. 17
The Imperatives for Conservation	p. 47
The Power of Parks	p. 63
Local Management of Natural Resources	p. 87
Conservation and Indigenous Peoples	p. 113
The Spread of Tourist Habitat	p. 131
International Conservation	p. 149
Conservation and Capitalism	p. 175
References	p. 203
Index	p. 239
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