Rough Waters : Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park


Christine J. Walley
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2010.
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1 online resource (329 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Glossary of KiSwahili Terms; Preface; Introduction: Conservation and Development in the Age of the Global; Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Epilogue: Participating in the Twenty-first Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Rough Waters explores one of the most crucial problems of the contemporary era--struggles over access to, and use of, the environment. It combines insights from anthropology, history, and environmental studies, mounting an interdisciplinary challenge to contemporary accounts of ""globalization."" The book focuses on The Mafia Island Marine Park, a national park in Tanzania that became the center of political conflict during its creation in the mid-1990s. The park, reflecting a new generation of internationally sponsored projects, was designed to encourage environmental conservation a
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0691115591. - 0691115605

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