Communities and conservation; histories and politics of community-based natural resource management.0759105057 Communities and conservation; histories and politics of community-based natural resource management. Ed. by J. Peter Brosius et al. AltaMira Press 2005 489 pages $95.00 Hardcover Globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation and the environment S928 Brosius (anthropology anthropology, classification and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human social relations has been the distinctive concept of culture. , U. of Georgia Georgia, country, Asia Georgia (jôr`jə), Georgian Sakartvelo, Rus. Gruziya, officially Republic of Georgia, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,677,000), c.26,900 sq mi (69,700 sq km), in W Transcaucasia. ) et al. assemble a book of 17 essays on the management of resources by communities, stemming from a conference in June of 1997. Supporting the idea that communities would serve better as managers of the land than companies, an international group of contributors present analyses and case studies, often in dialogue with each other. The first part illustrates models of community-based natural resource management in studies of Zimbabwe's program CAMPFIRE (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources), Mozambique, Africa, The Gambia, the Gambia, The, country, Africa Gambia, The (găm`bēə, gäm`–), officially Republic of The Gambia, republic (2005 est. pop. 1,593,000), 4,361 sq mi (11,295 sq km), W Africa. Machiguenga people of the Peruvian Amazon, and Indonesia, along with a discussion of organizations and democracy. Part two covers maps and the law in specific case studies of Guyana, the Ye'kuana of Venezuela, the Moluccas in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. , with a chapter on maps and power. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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