Description: Further DetailsTitle: Conservation Is Our Government NowCondition: NewSubtitle: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New GuineaISBN-10: 0822337495EAN: 9780822337492ISBN: 9780822337492Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/31/2006Description: A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project implemented between 1994 and 1999. She describes the interactions between those who ran the program—mostly ngo workers—and the Gimi people who live in the forests surrounding Crater Mountain. West shows that throughout the project there was a profound disconnect between the goals of the two groups. The ngo workers thought that they would encourage conservation and cultivate development by teaching Gimi to value biodiversity as an economic resource. The villagers expected that in exchange for the land, labor, food, and friendship they offered the conservation workers, they would receive benefits, such as medicine and technology. In the end, the divergent nature of each group’s expectations led to disappointment for both. West reveals how every aspect of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area—including ideas of space, place, environment, and society—was socially produced, created by changing configurations of ideas, actions, and material relations not only in Papua New Guinea but also in other locations around the world. Complicating many of the assumptions about nature, culture, and development underlying contemporary conservation efforts, Conservation Is Our Government Now demonstrates the unique capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between the global and the local, between transnational processes and individual lives.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 499gAuthor: Paige WestGenre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First CenturyTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Conservation Is Our Government Now
Title: Conservation Is Our Government Now
Subtitle: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
ISBN-10: 0822337495
EAN: 9780822337492
ISBN: 9780822337492
Release Date: 05/31/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Conservation Is Our Government Now : the Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Environmental Conservation & Protection, Economic Conditions, Indigenous Studies, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Development / Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Author: Paige West
Subject Area: Nature, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century Ser.
Format: Perfect
