"The Politics of Environmental Knowledge"
Using examples from environmental governance and conservation, Esther Turnhout engages critically with the ideal of policy-relevant environmental knowledge.
Using examples from environmental governance and conservation, Esther Turnhout engages critically with the ideal of policy-relevant environmental knowledge.
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.
The authors explore the on-the-ground reality of Burunge Wildlife Management Area (WMA), stressing the misrepresentation of conservation policies in WMAs at the expense of local communities.
Megan Youdelis reviews the book In Defense of Public Lands: The Case against Privatization and Transfer by Steven Davis.
Manish Chandi reviews the book Conservation from the Margins, edited by Umesh Srinivasan and Nandini Velho.