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Table oof ccontents Letter from the Chair....................................................................................M. ...

The Shompen of Great Nicobar Island (India)— between “development” and dis- appearance.......................................... ...

Dear CEESP members and partners, Once again, after Policy Matters No. 10 on Sustainable Livelihoods and Co-manage- ment of Natur ...

CConservation constituencies increasingly need to confront the history of “nature” and a variety of local cultural practices and ...

that unity is still being trampled upon in many places. So, what to do? Give up? Resign ourselves? Accept the “inevitable”? The ...

TThirty-three years ago the Evangelical Sisters of Mary, a Catholic order in Pheonix, Arizona, donated three plaques to the Gran ...

The Culture/Nature Wars Last year’s meeting of the World Parks Congress revealed continuing schisms in the conservation ‘communi ...

describe the constitution of culture. Failing to address this complexity leaves ‘culture’ as a catch-all term, subject to easy d ...

have been replaced by ‘objective rational- ism’. We can understand the ways in which environmental behaviour is grounded in par- ...

History, cculture aand cconservation of classification and categorisation rather than knowledge of ecological processes and dyna ...

Conservation aas ccultural aand ppolitical ppractice draw a connection between the presence of a natural symbol within societies ...

and international appeal. They suggest selecting an endemic species and directly engaging in the production of a cultural identi ...

of fisheries resources in Canada), but not of policy decisions of village headmen (e.g., the decision to impose a hunting ban in ...

assertions of cultural and racial hierar- chies.^39 But the fact that ‘culture’ has now become a focus of positive concern withi ...

institutions? This institutional context of changing human-environment relations is poorly understood. In many ways, the fault f ...

Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation, World Rainforest Movement/Forest Peoples Programme, 2003. Colding, J. & C. Fo ...

Hutchinson, 1985. Rival, Laura M. Thinking through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador, New York: Columbia University Pre ...

EEn France, le débat sur la protection de la nature s’est développé depuis les années 1970 dans un contexte social souvent crisp ...