Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples

by Mark Dowie

Book Overview

How native people--from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa--have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation.

Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012618
• ISBN13: 9780262012614
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher