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Review of Life in Oil by Michael L. Cepek
Vasundhara Jairath reviews the book Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia by Michael L. Cepek.
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Review of Organic Sovereignties by Guntra A. Aistara
Nicholas Babin´s review of the book Organic Sovereignties by Guntra A. Aistara.
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Review of Green Wars by Megan Ybarra
Anja Nygren reviews the 2017 book Green Wars: Colonization and Conservation in the Maya Forest by Megan Ybarra.
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Environmental Sustainability and Technological Change: The Slurry-Tanks Conflict in Galician Agriculture (1999–2019)
This article investigates the problem of defining technological change based on environmental sustainability criteria in Galicia.
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"Collaborative Governance of Protected Areas: Success Factors and Prospects for Hin Nam No National Protected Area, Central Laos"
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.
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"Beyond Contesting Limits: Land, Access, and Resistance at the Virunga National Park"
Stephan Hochleithner argues that multi-dimensional resistance to Virunga National Park’s conservation strategies ties in with general conflict dynamics in eastern DRC, while at the same time reproducing them within the realm of nature conservation, tightly interwoven with global dynamics.
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"Overfishing or Over Reacting? Management of Fisheries in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil"
The article explores the complex socio-environmental relations of small-scale inland fishing by using the Pantanal wetland in Brazil as a case study and attempts to deconstruct environmental narratives behind top-down fishing management practices.
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"The Forest of Our Lives: In and Out of Political Ecology"
The author seeks to bring together environmental anthropology and history to frame the place of forests in humans’ lives, from a political ecology point of view. He does this by reflecting on his personal experiences in Northeast India, Kenya, and Sweden.
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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.