"Economic Ideology about the Environment: From Adam Smith to Bjørn Lomborg"
The author recognizes techniques of ideological distortion (i.e., mixing knowledge with beliefs and preferences) in the argumentation of economist Bjørn Lomborg.
The author recognizes techniques of ideological distortion (i.e., mixing knowledge with beliefs and preferences) in the argumentation of economist Bjørn Lomborg.
Investigates the significance of the Sundarbans as a natural reserve or buffer area (a resource of yet unknown magnitude) in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.
Walker focuses on uncertainty as a boundary device that shapes scientific ethos in crucial ways and negotiates a relationship between technical science and public deliberation.
The article explores the opposing practices and philosophies between the Sámi people and state policymakers in northern Norway in terms of the human-environment relationship with a particular focus on language translation issues.
Anselmo Matusse engages in a discourse analysis of conservation legislation in Mozambique to show how indigenous knowledge has been systematically suppressed since the colonial period by ideologies of modernity.
The study analyzes the political equity in fisherfolk organizations of Beach Management Units (BMUs) in Lake Victoria (Kenya). It uses this as a case study to investigate the issue of decentralization of resource management through co-management, and its relationship with political power.
Amanda Poole reviews Sara Wylie’s Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds.
Vasundhara Jairath reviews the book Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia by Michael L. Cepek.
The authors assess the governance of the Hin Nam No National Protected Area in central Laos to understand the possibilities of supporting fruitful collaborative governance of protected areas.
This article explores the prospects and politics of indigenous participation in multi-sector conservation, using the case of the Boreal Leadership Council (BLC) in Canada. It concludes that multi-sector conservation creates both new possibilities for indigenous empowerment and new forms of marginalization through the reproduction of a (post)colonial geography of exclusion.