| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Routledge Perspectives on Development |
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Routledge perspectives on development.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Acknowledgements and dedications; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction; Why look at conservation and development together?; How do we explore the relationship between conservation and development?; Part 1: Histories of conservation and development; Part 2: Conservation and development in the broader global context; Part 3: Conservation and development in practice; Part 1: Histories of conservation and development; 1 Conservation and development in historical perspective; Introduction |
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The early roots of conservationThe commodification of nature and the creation of environmental concern; 'Back to the land' and 'wilderness': the beginnings of US and UK conservation; Managing global nature: science and conservation; Professionalising and globalising forestry science; Caribbean plantations, environment and empire; Quagga-mire: European settlement, hunting and trade in Southern Africa; The consolidation of international conservation; The pre-First World War and inter-war periods; Post-Second World War; Early forays of international conservation organisations into development |
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Rethinking environmentalism through (poor) people-centred framingsThe rise and fall of sustainable development, 1992-2012; The Rio Earth Summit, 1992; From Johannesburg (back) to Rio: sustainable development 2002-2012; Rising tides and rising powers: climate change and North-South relations; Summary; Discussion questions; Further reading; Online resources; Part 2: Conservation and development in the broader global context; 3 Conservation, development and the relationship between nature and society; Introduction; Nature and society: a tangled thicket; Nature and society as separate entities |
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Changing and surprisingly social ecologiesMoving towards an understanding of social-ecological systems; Changed understandings of change: the adaptive cycle; Resilience in social-ecological systems; Implications of complex social-ecological systems thinking for conservation and development; Constructing nature and society; What does 'constructing nature and society' mean?; When ecology becomes political; Varieties and strategies of constructivism; Summary; Discussion questions; Further reading; Online resources; 4 Conservation and development in an era of global change; Introduction |
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Discussion questions; Further reading; Online resources; 2 Sustainable development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; Introduction; The onset of popular environmentalism, 1962-1972: a spur to sustainability thinking; The early roots of popular environmentalism; Environmental disasters; The environmental 'prophets of doom'; Quantifying the limits to growth; 1972-1992: the birth of the sustainability paradigm; Antecedents for the first 'Earth Summit'; The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment; Our Common Future: the Brundtland Report |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Sustainable development.
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Environmental economics.
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sustainable development.
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Environmental economics.
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Sustainable development.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bhagwat, Shonil, author
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| ISBN |
9781317440581 |
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1317440587 |
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9781317440598 |
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1317440595 |
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9781317440574 |
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1317440579 |
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0415687802 |
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9780415687805 |
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0415687810 |
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9780415687812 |
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