Title: Refugees from conservation
First published: 2009
Description: "Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story"--Page 2 of cover.
Subjects: International cooperation, Ecology, Conservation of natural resources, Indigenous peoples, Ethnoecology, 42.95 nature conservation, 73.12 population (ethnology), Indigenes Volk, Interessenkonflikt, Nachhaltigkeit, Naturschutzgebiet, Subsistenzwirtschaft, Umsiedlung, Nature conservation, Traditional society, Ursprungsbefolkningar, Naturvård, Internationellt samarbete, Ureinwohner
LC classification: GF50 .D69 2009