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

by Christine J. Walley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691115605
• ISBN13: 9780691115603
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"