The new order of the ocean the advent of a managed environment: edited by Giulio Pontecorvo Columbia University Press, New York, 1986, xv + 277 pp, US$30

People, plants and justice: the politics

People, plants and justice: the politics of nature conservation, edited by C. Zerner. Columbia University Press, New York, 2000. ISBN 0 231 10811 7, US$49.50 (hardback), 0 231 10810 9, US$30.00 (paperback), 416 pp

✍ C. Gibson 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 38 KB

The study of conservation by social scientists has matured over the last three decades. This is as it should be: conservation is a complex subject, and its practice can change radically with time, location, scale, and ideology. But the growth of conservation's analysis means that texts devoted to it