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Review of Naturalezas en conflicto [Natures in Conflict] by José A. Cortés Vázquez
Ferran Pons Raga reviews Naturalezas en conflicto [Natures in Conflict] by José A. Cortés Vázquez.
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"The Political Ecology of Human-wildlife Conflict: Producing Wilderness, Insecurity, and Displacement in the Limpopo National Park"
The author analyzes the increase of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park due to conservation-induced displacement.
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Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times
Adrian Ivakhiv proposes an ecological realism based on humanity’s eventual demise, asking what we can do now and what quality of compost we should leave behind.
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"Investigating Consistency of a Pro-market Perspective amongst Conservationists"
The authors analyze perspectives of conservation professionals on the neoliberalization of ecosystem services, through a survey conducted with a group of conservationists based in Cambridge, England.
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"Connecting Climate Social Adaptation and Land Use Change in Internationally Adjoining Protected Areas"
Drawing on interviews with the managers of 56 internationally adjoining protected areas in 18 countries in the Americas, the study focuses on the link between land use change and environmental change, and on three adaptation strategies, namely diversification, pooling, and out-migration. It suggests that the impact of adaptation depends on the adaptation strategy chosen.
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"When Race and Social Equity Matters in Nature Conservation in Post-apartheid South Africa"
The authors draw on empirical experience to assess the extent of the impact of race and social equity in conservation, with the aim of promoting sustainable and more inclusive conservation practices in South Africa. Their findings suggest conservation practices in post-apartheid South Africa are still exclusionary for the majority black population.
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"What the Gringos Brought: Local Perspectives on a Private Protected Area in Chilean Patagonia"
The authors explore the case of a Privately Protected Area (PPA) in Chilean Patagonia to learn its impact on local residents. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, they find that the park has been detrimental to local livelihoods, has disrupted systems of production, and has elicited a negative emotional response.
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"The Displacement of Insufficiently ‘Traditional’ Communities: Local Fisheries in the Pantanal"
This paper uses data from a long-term ethnography of both the local people and the conservation agenda in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil, to discuss how environmentalists used the National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Traditional Peoples and Communities (PNDSPCT) to justify the displacement of local people.
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A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
This collection of studies provides valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing Latin America.
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West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
Astrid M. Eckert’s West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.