Communities and Conservation:
Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management

ISBN: 1-55105-376-4

Publisher: Altamira Press, 2005

Lourdes Arizpe Award, American Anthropological Association; 2005

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The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been instrumental in creating and shaping CBNRM describe their model programs; the countermapping movement and collective claims to land and resources; legal strategies for gaining rights to resources and territories; biodiversity conservation and land stabilization priorities; and environmental justice and minority rights. This book will be of value to instructors, practitioners and activists in anthropology, cultural geography, environmental justice, environmental policy, political ecology, indigenous rights, conservation biology, and CBNRM.

List of Contributors
Janis Alcorn, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, J. Peter Brosius, Marcus Colchester, Walter Coward, Louise Fortmann, Augusto B. Gatmaytan, Emmy Hafild, Tania Li, Owen Lynch, Marshall Murphree, Rod Neumann, Peter Poole, Dianne Rocheleau, Richard Schroeder, Richard Chase Smith, Christopher Tarnowski, Roem Topatimasang, Anna Tsing, Ken Wilson, and Charles Zerner.

About The Authors
J. Peter Brosius is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Charles Zerner is the Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professor of Environmental Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and co-director of the Environmental Studies/Science, Technology and Society Colloquium Series.