Local Effects of Global Forest Conservation Policy: On Zapotec Resistance against a Protected Natural Area
This article looks at the controversial issue of forest conservation in the Southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
This article looks at the controversial issue of forest conservation in the Southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
This film gives voice to people affected by the development of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon, and details the devastating environmental and social consequences of the project.
This film reports on the eviction of villages near Mubende by the Ugandan army to clear land for a coffee plantation.
This award-winning film portrays Canada’s indigenous Inuit community and its dependence on eider down, in the face of dwindling eider duck populations as a result of man-made development.
The film tells the story of two cotton farming villages in East Africa: one organic, one heavily industrialized.
Fei Sheng analyzes the ecological factors in China that spurred migration to Australia at a time when the discovery of gold as a natural resource made the country an ideal migration destination. He shows how Chinese migrants applied their environmental experience in a white settler colony.
João Afonso Baptista uses an ethnographic approach to analyze ecological knowledge in Angolan forests as shaped by local dwellers and represented by (neo)colonial processes of distinction and separation, namely the external knower and the object known.
The author investigates the lives of Tibetan pastoralists in alpine wetlands, how they understand wetlands, and how politics, market forces, and religious norms cooperate to produce their relationships with their livestock and their lands.
The authors study the relationship between poverty and poaching using a sample of 173 self-admitted poachers dwelling in villages near Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.
The authors delve into the social reasons behind illegal turtle egg harvesting in the La Flor Wildlife Refuge in Nicaragua, based on a survey conducted among 180 households living in Ostional, the largest village in the vicinity of the Refuge.