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  • Living Wisely

    The Indian Way to a Better Future

    What if sustainability is not just a policy goal or a technical fix but a profound way of beingin the world?Living Wisely offers a compelling and original rethinking of global ecology. Rather than treating environmentalism as a purely bureaucratic challenge, this interdisciplinary work argues that true sustainability is a relational, moral, and spiritual practice. It is an enduring ethic grounded ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and Adaptive Innovation

    A Model for Social Work Practice

    Series series Indigenous and Environmental Social Work
    The world is witnessing climate change. As responsible citizens of planet earth, we can actively participate in the co-creation of actionable knowledge and solutions. There may not be a single and linear pathway to adaptation anymore. This book explores multiple and iterative pathways of adapting to climate change and its impacts.Climate Change and Adaptive Innovation introduces an adaptive ... Read more

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  • Climate Change, Small-Scale Fisheries, and Blue Justice

    Fishscapes and Alternative Worldviews

    by Sunil Santha ...
    Series series Indigenous and Environmental Social Work
    This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean region. It specifically explores the impact of climate change on Fish and Fishers, and the mutual entanglements in their eco-social world. Further, it critically examines the nature of climate change adaptation and its implications on small-scale fisheries.Both ... Read more

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  • Friction

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  • Environmental Change in South-East Asia

    People, Politics and Sustainable Development

    Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests.Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive ... Read more

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  • Conservation Is Our Government Now

    The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project ... Read more

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  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the ... Read more

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  • Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

    Policy and Governance in a Changing World

    **This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also ... Read more

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  • Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

    Between Local and Global

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    Series series Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
    This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment ... Read more

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  • Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

    Landscapes, People and Power

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  • Nature Unbound

    Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas

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