Reclaiming nature : environmental justice and ecological restoration

Boyce, James K. (Added Author). Narain, Sunita. (Added Author). Stanton, Elizabeth A. (Added Author).

Summary: In ‘Reclaiming Nature’, leading environmental thinkers from across the globe explore the relationship between human activities and the natural. This is a bold and comprehensive text of major interest to both students of the environment and professionals involved in policy-making.

Record details

ISBN: 1843312352
ISBN: 9781843312352
ISBN: 1843312654
ISBN: 9781843312659
Physical Description: print
viii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The blessing of the commons : small-scale fisheries, community property rights, and coastal natural assets / John Kurien -- Natural resource management and poverty alleviation in mountain areas / Narpat S. Jodha -- Harvesting the rain : fighting ecological poverty through participatory democracy / Sunita Narain and Anil Agarwal -- Net benefits : the ecological restoration of inland fisheries in Bangladesh / M. Mokhlesur Rahman and Stephen F. Minkin -- Land reform and sustainable development / James K. Boyce, Peter Rosset and Elizabeth A. Stanton -- Extractive reserves : building natural assets in the Brazilian Amazon / Anthony Hall -- Mining rights and community rights : poverty amidst wealth / Karyn Keenan, José De Echave and Ken Traynor -- Natural assets and participatory forest management in West Africa / Kojo Sebastian Amanor -- Compensation for environmental services and rural communities : lessons from the Americas / Herman Rosa, Susan Kandel, Leopoldo Dimas and Deborah Barry -- Certification systems as tools for natural asset building / Michael E. Conroy -- Wastes as assets : limits and potentials / Eugene Gonzales -- Community rights and wildlife stewardship : Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE programme / James C. Murombedzi -- International environmental justice : building the natural assets of the world's poor / Krista Harper and S. Ravi Rajan -- Environmental justice : reflections from the United States / Manuel Pastor -- Equitable carbon revenue distribution under an international emissions trading regime / Nathan E. Hultman and Daniel M. Kammen -- Greenhouse justice : an entitlement framework for managing the global atmospheric commons / Sunita Narain and Matthew Riddle.