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Setting the Stage for New Global Knowledge: Science, Economics, and Indigenous Knowledge in 'The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity' at the Fourth World Conservation Congress
(Conservation and Society, 2010)
Global environmental knowledge underwrites the authority of international institutions charged with managing climate change, biodiversity loss and other looming environmental problems. While numerous studies show how global ...
The Receiving End of Reform: Everyday Responses to Neoliberalisation in Southeastern Mexico
(Antipode, 2010)
This article builds upon the literature on neoliberalism and environment as well as studies on community forestry by examining the creative accommodations that rural producers have made in navigating Mexico’s neoliberal ...
NTFP and REDD at the Fourth World Conservation Congress: What is In and What is Not
(Conservation and Society, 2010)
While the Fourth World Conservation Congress (WCC) was effective in bringing together different participants to discuss climate change, the discussion of potential mitigation mechanisms was dominated by the Reducing Emissions ...
Business, Biodiversity and New 'Fields' of Conservation: The World Conservation Congress and the Renegotiation of Organisational Order
(Conservation and Society, 2010)
Biodiversity conservation, in practise, is defined through the institutionalised association of individuals, organisations, institutions, bodies of knowledge and interests. Events like the World Conservation Congress (WCC) ...
The Devil is in the (Bio)diversity: Private Sector "Engagement" and the Restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation
(Antipode, 2010)
Intensified relations between biodiversity conservation organizations and privatesector actors are analyzed through a historical perspective that positions biodiversity conservation as an organized political project. Within ...