Conservation organisations play a key role in portraying rural people and places to external
audiences, driven by sectoral, political, and technological developments. While aiming to …

In an effort to recast themselves as proponents of human rights, transnational conservation
organizations increasingly look to Indigenous communities as sources of labour, knowledge …

The ongoing global decline of coral reefs and their associated fisheries highlights issues of
governance, including contrasting interpretations of the marine environment, the drivers and …

This introduction provides a review of articles published in the special section on community
conservation in the Wallacea region. As editors to the special section, we worked with …

In their report Whose Common Natural Resources? Whose Common Good? Lynch and
Harwell (2002: xxvi) seek to 'articulate a new paradigm that emphasizes local community …

Conservation has the potential to negatively impact nearby communities through readily
measurable losses, like economic livelihoods, and those less tangible, like cultural identity …

In attempts to reconcile conservation and development for poverty alleviation by establishing
protected areas, economic values of nature and compensation for loss of access to …

This chapter is one attempt to grapple with the ways that conservation discourse is practised
and embodied. It explores how sedimented repertoires of knowledge continue to structure …

Nongovernmental organizations active in the field of biodiversity conservation such as the
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), have contributed to the legitimation of “unproven assumptions” …

This paper addresses the transformation of forest bureaucracy, which has occurred in
accordance with a national policy shift from “fence-and-fine” to “participatory” conservation …