Communities and Conservation

Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Herausgeber: Brosius, Peter J.; Zerner, Charles; Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A group of distinguished environmentalists analyze and advocate for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). They offer an overview of this transnational movement and its links between environmental management and social justice agendas. This book will be valuable to instructors, practitioners, and activists in environmental anthropology, justice, and policy, in cultural geography, political ecology, indigenous rights, conservation biology, and community-based cultural resource management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780759105065
• ISBN-10: 0759105065
• Artikelnr.: 21446371

Autorenporträt

J. Peter Brosius is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Charles Zerner is the Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and co-director of the Environmental Studies/Science, Technology and Society Colloquium Series.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Part 1: Mobilizations and Models
3 A. Institutional Mandates
4 Chapter 1: Dances Around the Fire: Conservation Organizations and
Community-Based Natural Resource Management
5 Chapter 2: Participatory Democracy in Natural Resource Management: A
"Columbus' Egg"?
6 Chapter 3: Building Models of Community-Based Natural Resource
Management: A Personal Narrative
7 B. Defining Community in National and Transnational Contexts
8 Chapter 4: Congruent Objectives, Competing Interests and Strategic
Compromise: Concept and Process in the Evolution of Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE
Programme
9 Chapter 5: Of Diffusion and Context: The Bubbling Up of
Community-BasedResource Management in Mozambique
10 Chapter 6: Model, Panacea, or Exception?: Contextualizing CAMPFIRE and
Related Programs in Africa
11 Chapter 7: What We Need is a Community Bambi: The Perils and
Possibilities of Powerful Symbols
12 C. Empowerment or Coercion?
13 Chapter 8: Community, Forestry and Conditionality in the Gambia
14 Chapter 9: Can David and Goliath Have a Happy Marriage: The Machiguenga
People and the Camisea Gas Project in the Peruvian Amazon
15 Chapter 10: Social Movements, Community-Based Natural Resource
Management, and the Struggle for Democracy: Experiences from Indonesia
16 Part 2: Stealing the Master's Tools: Mapping and Law in Community-Based
Natural Resource Management
17 A. Mapping against Power
18 Chapter 11: Maps, Power and the Defense of Territory: The Upper Mazaruni
Land Claim in Guyana
19 Chapter 12: The Ye'kuana Mapping Project
20 Chapter 13: Maps as Power-Tools: Locating "Communities" in Space or
Situating People and Ecologies in Place?
21 Chapter 14: Mapping as Tool for Community Organizing Against Power: A
Moluccas Experience
22 B. Legal Strategies for the Disenfranchised
23 Chapter 15: Concepts and Strategies for Promoting Legal Recognition of
Community-Based Property Rights: Insights from the Philippines and Other
Nations
24 Chapter 16: Engaging Simplifications: Community-Based Natural Resource
Management, Market Processes, and State Agendas in Upland Southeast Asia
25 Chapter 17: Advocacy as Translation: Notes on the Philippine Experience
26 INDEX
27 ABOUT THE AUTHORS