Contested Nature: Promoting International Biodiversity and Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Steven R. Brechin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791457761 ISBN 13: 9780791457764

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven R. Brechin is Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University. He is the coauthor (with Patrick C. West) of Resident Peoples and National Parks: Social Dilemmas and Strategies in International Conservation.

Peter R. Wilshusen is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Bucknell University.

Peter R. Wilshusen is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Bucknell University.

Review:

..".Contested Nature opens new vistas on how social justice can be furthered through the establishment and management of protected areas while still meeting critical nature conservation objectives."

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0791457761
• ISBN 13: 9780791457764
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Steven R. Brechin, Peter R. Wilshusen, Crystal L. Fortwangler, Patrick C. West