Presenting and Representing Environments

Presenting and Representing Environments

Author: Graham Humphrys

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-01-27

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1402038143

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The presentation and representation of the environment occurs throughout academia and across all news media. The strict protocols of science often clash with environmental information available from sources that dwell on subjective aesthetic, emotional and personal sensitivities. This book challenge the reader, as student, teacher, researcher or policy maker, to reflect critically on the ways that environments are studied, interpreted, presented and represented, in education and public policy.


Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Author: Dawn Chatty

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781571818423

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Wildlife conservation and other environmental protection projects can have tremendous impact on the lives and livelihoods of the often mobile, difficult-to-reach, and marginal peoples who inhabit the same territory. The contributors to this collection of case studies, social scientists as well as natural scientists, are concerned with this human element in biodiversity. They examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities forced to move or to settle elsewhere in order to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity concerns. The case studies investigate successful and not so successful community-managed, as well as local participatory, conservation projects in Africa, the Middle East, South and South Eastern Asia, Australia and Latin America. There are lessons to be learned from recent efforts in community managed conservation and this volume significantly contributes to that discussion.


Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Policies

Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Policies

Author: Frank Ellis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1134296274

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This important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries. As well as leading economists in the field such as Frank Ellis and Chris Barrett, there are a number of contributors from developing countries themselves. The book examines both macroeconomic and microeconomic phenomena and contains wide range of case studies. Skilfully exposing the gap that exists between the rhetoric of poverty reduction strategies in capital cities and the practice of public sector delivery in rural areas, this key text will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of rural development, rural livelihoods, poverty reduction strategies and Sub-Saharan Africa development as well as advisors and practitioners in international organizations.


Progress in Responsible Tourism Vol 3 (1)

Progress in Responsible Tourism Vol 3 (1)

Author: Harold Goodwin

Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd

Published: 2014-04-28

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1910158038

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Records and debates the progress which is being made in the UK and around the world in the implementation of the Cape Town Declaration and its aspiration to see the development of more responsible forms of tourism. Written by leading thinkers and academics in the field they provide flexible, current and topical information as an instant download.