Communities and The Environment: Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation
Editat de Arun Agrawal, Clark C. Gibsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2001
For years environmentalists thought natural resources could be best protected by national legislation. But the poor outcomes of this top-down policy have led conservation professionals today to regard local communities as the agents of conservation efforts. According to a recent survey, more than fifty countries report that they pursue partnerships with local communities in an effort to protect their forests. Despite the recent popularity of a community-based approach, the concept of community rarely receives the attention it should get from those concerned with resource management. This balanced volume redresses the situation, demonstrating both the promise and the potential dangers of community action.
Although the contributors advocate community-based conservation, they examine the record with a critical eye. They pay attention to the concrete political contexts in which communities emerge and operate. Understanding the nature of community requires understanding the internal politics of local regions and their relationship to external forces and actors. Especially critical are issues related to ethnicity, gender, and the state.
Although the contributors advocate community-based conservation, they examine the record with a critical eye. They pay attention to the concrete political contexts in which communities emerge and operate. Understanding the nature of community requires understanding the internal politics of local regions and their relationship to external forces and actors. Especially critical are issues related to ethnicity, gender, and the state.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813529141
ISBN-10: 081352914X
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 081352914X
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
Arun Agarwal is an associate professor of political science at Yale. He has written Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant People.
Clark C. Gibson is an associate professor of political science at Indian University, Bloomington. He is the author of Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa.
Clark C. Gibson is an associate professor of political science at Indian University, Bloomington. He is the author of Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa.
Cuprins
The role of community in natural resource conservation / Arun Agrawal and Clark C. Gibson
Invoking community: indigenous people and ancestral domain in Palawan, the Philippines / Melanie Hughes McDermott
Gender dimensions of community resource management: the case of water users' associations in South Asia / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margreet Zwarteveen
The ethnopolitics of irrigation in management in the Ziz oasis, Morocco / Hsain Ilahiane
Reidentifying ground rules: community inheritance disputes among the Digo of Kenya / Bettina Ng'weno
Communitites, states, and the governance of Pacific Northwest salmon fisheries / Sara Singleton
Boundary work: community, market, and state reconsidered / Tania Murray Li
Community and the commons: romantic and other views / Bonnie J. McCay
Invoking community: indigenous people and ancestral domain in Palawan, the Philippines / Melanie Hughes McDermott
Gender dimensions of community resource management: the case of water users' associations in South Asia / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Margreet Zwarteveen
The ethnopolitics of irrigation in management in the Ziz oasis, Morocco / Hsain Ilahiane
Reidentifying ground rules: community inheritance disputes among the Digo of Kenya / Bettina Ng'weno
Communitites, states, and the governance of Pacific Northwest salmon fisheries / Sara Singleton
Boundary work: community, market, and state reconsidered / Tania Murray Li
Community and the commons: romantic and other views / Bonnie J. McCay
Descriere
For years environmentalists thought natural resources could be best protected by national legislation. But the poor outcomes of this top-down policy have led conservation professionals today to regard local communities as the agents of conservation efforts. According to a recent survey, more than fifty countries report that they pursue partnerships with local communities in an effort to protect their forests. Despite the recent popularity of a community-based approach, the concept of community rarely receives the attention it should get from those concerned with resource management. This balanced volume redresses the situation, demonstrating both the promise and the potential dangers of community action.