Nature Unbound - Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protect

This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose. The book explores key debates on devolution, participation and democracy: the role and uniqueness of indigenous peoples and other local communities: institutions and resource management hegemony, myth and symbolic power in conservation success stories tourism, poverty and conservation and the transformation of social and material relations which community conservation entails.