Open AccessJungle Book: Authoritarian Conservation and its Alternatives
Author(s) -
Denis Byrne
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
trans/forming cultures ejournal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1833-8542
DOI - 10.5130/tfc.v3i1.696
Subject(s) - fortress (chess) , biodiversity , biodiversity conservation , jungle , authoritarianism , work (physics) , position (finance) , environmental ethics , geography , political science , sociology , history , law , ecology , archaeology , engineering , politics , business , democracy , ancient history , biology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , finance
Making Conservation Work: Securing Biodiversity in this New Century, edited by Ghazala Shahabuddin & Mahesh Rangarajan. Ranikhet (Uttaranchal): Permanent Black, (298 pages).There is a crisis in Indian nature conservation. For years now community conservation has seemed to many of us to have been consolidating its position as the only ethical and workable model for conserving biodiversity in the developing world. The fortress conservation model whereby protected areas are garrisoned for total exclusion of local people and their extractive activities had been thoroughly critiqued and seemed to have been consigned to a place in history along with colonial game reserves. Yet we are now witnessing a swing back to exclusionary thinking on the part of many conservationists