Saving Forests, Protecting People?: Environmental Conservation in Central America (Globalization And The Environment) [Hardcover]

John Schelhas (Author), Max J. Pfeffer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 075910946X | ISBN-13: 978-0759109469 | Publication Date: November 28, 2007

Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups approach global environmental issues. Schelhas and Pfeffer show that globally-driven forest conservation efforts have had different results in different places, ranging from violent protest to the discovery of common ground among conservation programs and the various interests of local peoples. The authors examine the connections between local values, material needs, and environmental management regimes. Saving Forests, Protecting People? explores that difficult terrain where culture, the environment, and social policies meet.

Editorial Reviews

Review

What happens when global concerns about conserving forests and wildlife run up against the reality that people rely on those resources to make a living? Schelhas and Pfeffer examine how rural communities in Costa Rica and Honduras think about forests and conservation—and they find that global discourses about the environment have reached the farthest corners of the earth, though local people reinterpret them to meet their needs. Saving Forests, Protecting People? brings these processes sharply into focus, which is essential if we are to find realistic solutions to the problems of conservation. (David Kaimowitz )

Schelhas and Pfeffer have written an engaging and unique book that fills an important niche in our understanding of the intersection of global and local values in tropical forest conservation. (Steven R. Brechin )

The authors offer a realistic, penetrating analysis of the values and motivations that shape local response to government policies....Highly recommended. (Choice )

Shines a welcome light on the changing attitudes of poor rural peoples toward newly created parks near their homes. It is a 'must read' for anyone concerned about preserving biodiversity in the tropics. (Rudel, Thomas K. )

About the Author

John Schelhas is research forester with the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service stationed at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Max J. Pfeffer is International Professor of Development Sociology and chair of the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 330 pages
• Publisher: Altamira Press (November 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075910946X
• ISBN-13: 978-0759109469
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,765,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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