Between Preservation and Exploitation: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries

by Kemi Fuentes-George

Book Overview

A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation.

In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic development activities--bauxite mining in Jamaica and large-scale tourism and overfishing on the eastern coast of the Yucat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262528762
• ISBN13: 9780262528764
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher