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Nature Unbound: Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas

Brockington, Dan, Duffy, Rosaleen, Igoe, Jim (2008) Nature Unbound: Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas. Earthscan . Routledge ISBN 978-1-84407-440-2. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:30101)

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Abstract

This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose. The book explores key debates on devolution, participation and democracy; the role and uniqueness of indigenous peoples and other local communities; institutions and resource management; hegemony, myth and symbolic power in conservation success stories; tourism, poverty and conservation; and the transformation of social and material relations which community conservation entails. For conservation practitioners and protected area professionals not accustomed to criticisms of their work, or students new to this complex field, the book will provide an understanding of the history and current state of affairs in the rise of protected areas. It introduces the concepts, theories and writers on which critiques of conservation have been built, and provides the means by which practitioners can understand problems with which they are wrestling. For advanced researchers the book will present a critique of the current debates on protected areas and provide a host of jumping off points for an array of research avenues

Item Type: Book
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation > DICE (Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology)
Depositing User: Shelley Urwin
Date Deposited: 13 Aug 2012 11:03 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:08 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/30101 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Duffy, Rosaleen.

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