Author : Philip Hurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : UCSD:31822030683841
Rainforest Politics
Philip Hurst
Rainforest Politics
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The Politics of the Indonesian Rainforest
I Ketut Gunawan
Author : I Ketut Gunawan
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 9783865372802
The Politics of the Indonesian Rainforest by I Ketut Gunawan Pdf
Governing the Rainforest
Eve Z. Bratman
Author : Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190949389
Governing the Rainforest by Eve Z. Bratman Pdf
Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of embroilments requiring constant negotiation of often-competing aims. Sustainable development politics yield highly uneven results among different members of society and different geographic areas. As this book argues, such imbalances mean that sustainable development processes often prioritize economic over environmental goals, perpetuating and reinforcing economic and political inequalities. Governing the Rainforest looks at development and conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, where the government and corporate interests bump up against those of environmentalists and local populations. This book asks why sustainable development continues to be such a powerful and influential idea in the region, and what impact it has had on various political and economic interests and geographic areas. In other words, as Eve Z. Bratman argues, sustainable development is a political practice in itself. This book offers detailed case study analysis, including of the creation of vast conservation corridors, the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world, and new forms of land settlement projects. Based on a decade of Bratman's ethnographic fieldwork throughout Brazil, and particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, Governing the Rainforest offers a fresh take on sustainable development within a multi-level analysis of actors, discourses, and practices.
The Fourth Circle
John Fitzgerald McCarthy
Author : John Fitzgerald McCarthy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804752125
The Fourth Circle by John Fitzgerald McCarthy Pdf
This book analyzes the political, legal, and economic dynamics shaping environmental outcomes across two districts in Aceh, one of the richest and most expansive areas of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia. Its central theme is that the present cycle of ecological decline can best be understood in terms of the way political, economic and social forces operate at the district level.
Rainforest Politics
Philip Hurst
Author : Philip Hurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : UCSD:31822006619597
Rainforest Politics by Philip Hurst Pdf
Breakfast Of Biodiversity
John Vandermeer,Ivette Perfecto
Author : John Vandermeer,Ivette Perfecto
Publisher : Food First Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780935028454
Breakfast Of Biodiversity by John Vandermeer,Ivette Perfecto Pdf
The continuing devastation of the world’s tropical rain forest affects us all—spurring climate change, decimating biodiversity, and wrecking our environment’s resiliency. Millions of worried people around the world want to do whatever it takes to save the forest that is left. But halting rain forest destruction means understanding what is driving it. In Breakfast of Biodiversity, John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto insightfully describe the ways in which such disparate factors as the international banking system, modern agricultural techniques, rain forest ecology, and the struggles of the poor interact to bring down the forest. They weave an alternative vision in which democracy, sustainable agriculture, and land security for the poor are at the center of the movement to save the tropical environment.
Reshaping World Politics
Craig Warkentin
Author : Craig Warkentin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0742509729
Reshaping World Politics by Craig Warkentin Pdf
This text examines the ways in which non-governmental organizations (NGOs) contribute to the development and maintenance of global civil society. The author investigates eight NGOs and connects their organizational activities to global civil society's constitutive dynamics and processes.
People of the Rainforest
John Hemming
Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781787382992
People of the Rainforest by John Hemming Pdf
In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After more expeditions into unknown terrain, they became South America's most famous explorers, spending the rest of their lives with the resilient tribal communities they found there. People of the Rainforest recounts the Villas Boas brothers' four thrilling and dangerous 'first contacts' with isolated indigenous people, and their lifelong mission to learn about their societies and, above all, help them adapt to modern Brazil without losing their cultural heritage, identity and pride. Author and explorer John Hemming vividly traces the unique adventures of these extraordinary brothers, who used their fame to change attitudes to native peoples and to help protect the world's surviving tropical rainforests, under threat again today.
The Brazilian Rainforest
David Cleary
Author : David Cleary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Amazon River Region
ISBN : MINN:31951D005142434
The Brazilian Rainforest by David Cleary Pdf
Describes environmental trends during the 1980s and potential improvements in the 1990s.
Alchemy in the Rain Forest
Jerry K. Jacka
Author : Jerry K. Jacka
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375012
Alchemy in the Rain Forest by Jerry K. Jacka Pdf
In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the impacts large-scale commercial gold mining in the region has had on ecology and social relations. Despite the deadly interclan violence and widespread pollution brought on by mining, the uneven distribution of its financial benefits has led many Porgerans to call for further development. This desire for increased mining, Jacka points out, counters popular portrayals of indigenous people as innate conservationists who defend the environment from international neoliberal development. Jacka's examination of the ways Porgerans search for common ground between capitalist and indigenous ways of knowing and being points to the complexity and interconnectedness of land, indigenous knowledge, and the global economy in Porgera and beyond.
The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia
Philip Hirsch,Carol Warren
Author : Philip Hirsch,Carol Warren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134690442
The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia by Philip Hirsch,Carol Warren Pdf
The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia charts the emergence of the environment as an issue of public debate in the region. Through a series of case studies the authors explore the coalescence of social forces around environmental issues, the process of alliance formation, and the role of state institutions, media and NGOs in the complex political battles over resource allocation. The volatile tensions between the winners and losers in this struggle for the environment will make Southeast Asia a focus of increased attention.
Governing the Rainforest
Eve Z. Bratman
Author : Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190949402
Governing the Rainforest by Eve Z. Bratman Pdf
Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of embroilments requiring constant negotiation of often-competing aims. Sustainable development politics yield highly uneven results among different members of society and different geographic areas. As this book argues, such imbalances mean that sustainable development processes often prioritize economic over environmental goals, perpetuating and reinforcing economic and political inequalities. Governing the Rainforest looks at development and conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, where the government and corporate interests bump up against those of environmentalists and local populations. This book asks why sustainable development continues to be such a powerful and influential idea in the region, and what impact it has had on various political and economic interests and geographic areas. In other words, as Eve Z. Bratman argues, sustainable development is a political practice in itself. This book offers detailed case study analysis, including of the creation of vast conservation corridors, the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world, and new forms of land settlement projects. Based on a decade of Bratman's ethnographic fieldwork throughout Brazil, and particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, Governing the Rainforest offers a fresh take on sustainable development within a multi-level analysis of actors, discourses, and practices.
Forest Politics
David Humphreys
Author : David Humphreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317971740
Forest Politics by David Humphreys Pdf
'An important and timely book' from the Foreword by Stanley Johnson 'A complete and absorbing history of a decade of intense international politics offers many insights for future negotiators of sustainable solutions' Stephen Bass, International Institute for Environment and Development 'Skillfully navigates the jungle of forest politics, leaving us in no doubt that the verbal commitment to save the world's forests has yet to be translated into action on the ground. The way forward must clearly lie in political commitments and international cooperation if forests are to continue to preserve life on Earth' Francis Sullivan, World Wide Fund for Nature Global deforestation and its attendant processes - including soil degradation, climate change and the loss of biological diversity - emerged as international political issues during the 1980s, prompting politicians to seek consensus on programmes and policies for the conservation and sustainable management of forests. Yet global initiatives have been bedevilled by tensions between the North and South and between governments, industry, local communities and indigenous peoples. Meanwhile, rates of deforestation in the tropics are increasing, and international political efforts are demonstrably failing. Forest Politics carefully traces the evolution of international cooperation on forests, from the inception of the controversial International Tropical Timber Organization and the failed Tropical Forestry Action Programme in the mid-1980s, to the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests in the mid-1990s. The book also provides a detailed analysis of the negotiating stances of the parties involved in the divisive negotiations that rook place prior to the 1992 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro and the equally factious negotiations for the International Tropical Timber Agreement of 1994. It provides a fascinating insight into the nature of such processes, illustrating the difficulties that arise when concepts such as 'global commons' come into conflict with national sovereignty. Complete with annexes of important political documents, and making extensive use of primary source material and interviews with participants. Forest Politics presents case studies of all the major forest negotiations over the last 13 years. It is an essential reference point for policy makers, environmental campaigners and students, and required reading for all those who care about the future of the world's forests. David Humphreys is Research Fellow in Global Environmental Change at the Open University. Originally published in 1996
The Intemperate Rainforest
Bruce Braun
Author : Bruce Braun
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816633991
The Intemperate Rainforest by Bruce Braun Pdf
Braun (geography, U. of Minnesota) provides a new viewpoint on the complex cultural, political, and intellectual forces involved in the forest policies of British Columbia. Employing poststructuralist theory and using the 1993 protests over logging in Clayoquot Sound as his starting point, Braun assesses the colonial thinking behind 19th- century forest policies, the struggles of native peoples to regain their spaces, the assertion of so-called rational forest management as a new version of colonialism, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee's use of nature photography to promote their notion of pristine wilderness, ecotourism, and the continued impact of the vision of early 20th-century painter Emily Carr. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Rainforest
Tony Juniper
Author : Tony Juniper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781642830729
Rainforest by Tony Juniper Pdf
Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity--but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world have a powerful and concrete impact, reaching as far as America's Great Plains and central Europe. In Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines, a prominent conservationist provides a comprehensive view of the crucial roles rainforests serve, the state of the world's rainforests today, and the inspirational efforts underway to save them. In Rainforest, Tony Juniper draws upon decades of work in rainforest conservation. He brings readers along on his journeys, from the thriving forests of Costa Rica to Indonesia, where palm oil plantations have supplanted much of the former rainforest. Despite many ominous trends, Juniper sees hope for rainforests and those who rely upon them, thanks to developments like new international agreements, corporate deforestation policies, and movements from local and Indigenous communities. As climate change intensifies, we have already begun to see the effects of rainforest destruction on the planet at large. Rainforest provides a detailed and wide-ranging look at the health and future of these vital ecosystems. Throughout this evocative book, Juniper argues that in saving rainforests, we save ourselves, too.
