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The Invention of Voacanga africana as a Ceremonial Psychedelic
This article examines transformations in the meaning and value of Voacanga africana.
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“Introduction: Human-nature Interactions through a Multispecies Lens”
In this introduction to a special issue on human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens, the authors focus on the notion of “multispecies assemblages” and their role in conservation theory and practice at the intersection between ecology, history, and society.
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"Scarcity, Alterity and Value: Decline of the Pangolin, the World’s Most Trafficked Mammal"
The paper analyzes pangolin trafficking among South and Southeast Asian countries, shedding light on the commodity chain linking the hunters and consumers of pangolin across South, Southeast and East Asia.
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“Austere Conservation: Understanding Conflicts over Resource Governance in Tanzanian Wildlife Management Areas”
The authors examine how public participation is structured in the regime of rules over access to land, natural, and financial resources of a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania.
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"Failure by Design? Revisiting Tanzania’s Flagship Wildlife Management Area Burunge"
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.
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"Pooling Expert Opinion on Environmental Discounting: An International Delphi Survey"
The authors examine the issues related to environmental discounting in cost-benefit analyses on projects of environmental impact by using a Delphi survey of a worldwide panel drawn from specialists.
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"Understanding the Relationship between Governance and Forest Landscape Restoration"
The author explores the governance challenges that practitioners face when restoring forest landscapes, and the points of intersection between forest landscape restoration and governance.
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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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"Boreal Forest Prospects and Politics: Paradoxes of First Nations Participation in Multi-sector Conservation"
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.
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Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene
Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene argues that the current climate crisis calls for new ways of thinking and producing knowledge, suggesting that our collective inclination has been to go on in an experimental and exploratory mode, in which we refuse to foreclose on options or jump too quickly to “solutions.”