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Multivocal responses to conservation in Maluku province, Indonesia: Biocultural diversity, protest and management in a zone of ecological transition

Soselisa, Hermien L., Ellen, Roy F. (2024) Multivocal responses to conservation in Maluku province, Indonesia: Biocultural diversity, protest and management in a zone of ecological transition. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 45 (3). pp. 515-532. ISSN 0129-7619. E-ISSN 1467-9493. (doi:10.1111/sjtg.12554) (KAR id:106654)

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Abstract

The Moluccan islands of eastern Indonesia (Maluku) were amongst the last frontiers to be opened-up for large-scale resource extraction and economic development in modern times. The interventions of organized conservation science and local conservation activity are also recent. Yet the area has a complex economic history and historical ecology linked to the spice trade, which itself prompted early scholarly interest in its natural history. Conservation practice since 1980 is shown to be deeply embedded in local political events and cultural contexts, exhibiting a diversity of institutional forms and a 'cacophony' of community voices. We conclude that conservation research and interventions need to pay more attention to historical ecologies, biocultural linkages and distinctively local patterns of conservation activity.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/sjtg.12554
Uncontrolled keywords: scientific attention, conservation discourse, biocultural diversity, historical ecology, Moluccas (Maluku) Indonesia
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Funders: Leverhulme Trust (https://ror.org/012mzw131)
Depositing User: Roy Ellen
Date Deposited: 22 Jul 2024 09:28 UTC
Last Modified: 25 Sep 2024 09:44 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106654 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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