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Author Walley, Christine J., 1965-

Title Rough waters : nature and development in an East African marine park / Christine J. Walley
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Anthropology online
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Glossary of KiSwahili Terms; Preface; Introduction: Conservation and Development in the Age of the Global; Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Epilogue: Participating in the Twenty-first Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Rough Waters explores one of the most crucial problems of the contemporary era--struggles over access to, and use of, the environment. It combines insights from anthropology, history, and environmental studies, mounting an interdisciplinary challenge to contemporary accounts of ""globalization."" The book focuses on The Mafia Island Marine Park, a national park in Tanzania that became the center of political conflict during its creation in the mid-1990s. The park, reflecting a new generation of internationally sponsored projects, was designed to encourage environmental conservation a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-298) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Marine parks and reserves -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Mafia Island Marine Park
Economic development projects -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Mafia Island Marine Park
Marine parks and reserves -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Mafia District
Economic development projects -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Mafia District
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Economic development projects -- Social aspects
Milieubeleid.
Nationale parken.
SUBJECT Mafia Island Marine Park (Tanzania) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004747
Subject Tanzania -- Mafia District
Tanzania -- Mafia Island Marine Park
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003053606
ISBN 9781400835751
1400835755
9780691115597
0691115591
9780691115603
0691115605
1282531697
9781282531697
9786612531699
661253169X