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Conservation refugees : the hundred-year conflict between global conservation and native peoples

Author: Mark Dowie
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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"Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mark Dowie
ISBN: 9780262012614 0262012618
OCLC Number: 237018873
Description: xxix, 341 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Miwok --
"Nature" --
Maasai --
BINGO --
Forest people --
Exclusion --
Karen --
Natural capital and TEK --
Adivasi --
Disturbances --
Basarwa --
Fighting back --
Ogiek --
The science of princes --
Kayapo --
Fiasco --
Mursi --
First stewards --
Gabon : an irresistible opportunity --
Epilogue : Vital diversities : balancing the protection of nature and culture --
Appendix A : Indigenous peoples and conservation : WWF Statement of Principles --
Appendix B : United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Responsibility: Mark Dowie.
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How native peoples--from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa--have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation.  Read more...

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