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Title Nature Inc. : environmental conservation in the neoliberal age / edited by Bram Büscher, Wolfram Dressler, and Robert Fletcher.

Publication Info. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2014]

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Description 1 electronic resource (278 pages ).
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computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Critical green engagements : investigating the green economy and its alternatives
Critical green engagements.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pges 255-286) and index.
Summary ""Nature Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyze how 'neoliberal conservation' is reshaping human-nature relations"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Contents Introduction : Nature Inc. : the new frontiers of environmental conservation / Robert Fletcher, Wolfram Dressler, and Bram Büscher -- Capitalizing conservation on Palawan Island, the Philippines / Wolfram Dressler -- Orchestrating nature : ethnographies of Nature Inc. / Kenneth Iain MacDonald and Catherine Corson -- Nature, villagers, and the state : resistance politics from protected areas in Zimbabwe / Frank Matose -- Taking the chocolate laxative : why neoliberal conservation "fails forward" / Robert Fletcher -- Celebrity spectacle, post-democratic politics, and Nature Inc. / Dan Brockington -- Capitalizing conservation/development : dissimulation, misrecognition, and the erasure of power / Peter R. Wilshusen -- Performative equations and neoliberal commodification : the case of climate / Larry Lohmann -- Nature on the move I : the value and circulation of liquid nature and the emergence of fictitious conservation / Bram Büscher -- Nature on the move II : contemplation becomes speculation / Jim Igoe -- Nature on the move III : (re)countenancing an animate nature / Sian Sullivan -- Conclusion : The limits of Nature Inc. and the search for vital alternatives / Wolfram Dressler, Bram Büscher, and Robert Fletcher.
Note This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Subject Conservation of natural resources.
Environmental protection.
Human ecology.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Neoliberalism.
Êtres humains -- Influence sur la nature.
Écologie humaine.
Conservation des ressources naturelles.
Néo-libéralisme.
Environnement -- Protection.
human ecology.
environmental protection.
Environmentalist thought & ideology.
NATURE / Ecology.
Conservation of natural resources
Environmental protection
Human ecology
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Neoliberalism
Added Author Büscher, Bram, 1977-
Dressler, Wolfram Heinz.
Fletcher, Robert, 1973-
Other Form: Print version: Nature Inc. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2014] 9780816530953 (hardback) (DLC) 2013040334
ISBN 9780816530953 hardback
9780816598854
0816598851
9781306639880
1306639883
0816530955
9780816530953
9780816539215 (electronic bk.)
0816539219 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000052923943
AU@ 000066531532
CHBIS 010480710
CHNEW 001057368
CHVBK 336941625
CHVBK 569637368
DEBSZ 452590973

 
    
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