People, Plants, and Justice

by Zerner, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780231108119
• ISBN10: 0231108117
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments	xv
PART I: ACROSS THE TERRAIN
Introduction Toward a Broader Vision of Justice and Nature Conservation	3	(18)
Charles Zerner
Contested Communities, Malignant Markets, and Gilded Governance: Justice, Resource Extraction, and Conservation in the Tropics	21	(31)
Michael J. Watts
Beyond Distributive Justice: Resource Extraction and Environmental Justice in the Tropics	52	(15)
Richard A. Schroeder
PART II: ON LOCATION: CASE STUDIES
Justice for Whom? Contemporary Images of Amazonia	67	(16)
Candace Slater
Outrage in Rubber and Oil: Extractivism, Indigenous Peoples, and Justice in the Upper Amazon	83	(34)
Soren Hvalkof
Land, Justice, and the Politics of Conservation in Tanzania	117	(17)
Roderick P. Neumann
Rebellion, Representation, and Enfranchisement in the Forest Villages of Makacoulibantang, Eastern Senegal	134	(25)
Jesse C. Ribot
The Damar Agroforests of Krui, Indonesia: Justice for Forest Farmers	159	(45)
Genevieve Michon
Hubert de Foresta
Kusworo
Patrice Levang
Tropical Forests Forever? A Contextual Ecology of Bentian Rattan Agroforestry Systems	204	(30)
Stephanie Gorson Fried
Global Markets, Local Injustice in Southeast Asian Seas: The Live Fish Trade and Local Fishers in the Togean Islands of Sulawesi	234	(25)
Celia Lowe
Exploitation of Gaharu, and Forest Conservation Efforts in the Kayan Mentarang National Park, East Kalimantan, Indonesia	259	(26)
Frank Momberg
Rajindra Puri
Timothy Jessup
The Meaning of the Manatee: An Examination of Community-Based Ecotourism Discourse and Practice in Gales, Point, Belize	285	(24)
Jill M. Belsky
Profits, Prunus, and the Prostate: International Trade in Tropical Bark	309	(21)
Anthony Balfour Cunnigham
Michelle Cuningham
A Tale of Two Villages: Culture, Conservation, and Ecocolonialism in Samoa	330	(15)
Paul Alan Cox
One in Ten Thousand? The Cameroon Case of Ancistrocladus korupensis	345	(29)
Sarah A. Laird
A.B. Cunningham
Estherine Lisinge
The Fate of the Collections: Social Justice and the Annexation of Plant Genetic Resources	374	(29)
Bronwyn Parry
References	403	(34)
Contributors	437	(6)
Index	443