Globalization and new geographies of conservation
By: edited by Karl S. Zimmerer.
Contributors: Zimmerer, Karl S.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Conservation of natural resources.; Natural resources -- Management.; Globalization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Geographical perspectives on globalization and environmental issues : the inner-connections of conservation, agriculture, and livelihoods / Karl Zimmerer; title: Spatialities in global conservation and sustainability projects; title: Certifying biodiversity : conservation networks, landscape connectivity, and certified  agriculture in southern Mexico / Tad Mutersbaugh; title: Satellite remote sensing for management and monitoring of certified forestry : an example from the Brazilian Amazon / Jane M. Read; title: Productive conservation and its representation : the case of beekeeping in the Brazilian Amazon / J. Christopher Brown; title: Linking scales in livelihood analysis and global environmental science : Urban house-lot gardens and agrodiversity in Santarém, Pará, Brazil : spaces of conservation that link urban with rural / Antoinette M.G.A. Winklerprins; title: Multilevel geographies of seed networks and seed use in relation to agrobiodiversity : conservation in the Andean countries / Karl Zimmerer; title: Shifting scales, lines, and lives : the politics of conservation science and development in the Sahel / Matthew D. Turner; title: Transnational and border issues in global conservation management : conservation initiatives and "transnationalization" in the Mekong River basin / Chris Sneddon; title: A transnational perspective on national protected areas and ecoregions in the tropical  Andean countries / Rodrigo Sierra; title: Development of Peru's protected-area system : historical continuity of conservation goals / Kenneth R. Young and Lily O. Rodríguez; title: Decentralization and environmental governance in globalization : conservation, globalization, and democratization : exploring the contradictions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala / Juanita Sundberg; title: Decentralization, land policy, and the politics of scale in Burkina Faso / Leslie C. gray; title: Fences, ecologies, and changes in pastoral life : sandy land reclamation in Uxin Ju, inner Mongolia, China / Hong Jiang; title: Conclusion : rethinking the compatibility, consequences, and geographic strategies of conservation and development / Karl Zimmerer.