Saving Forests, Protecting People?

Environmental Conservation in Central America

John Schelhas, Max J. Pfeffer

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780759113572
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Conservation & Protection
• Index: Biological Sciences

Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups approach global environmental issues. Schelhas and Pfeffer show that globally-driven forest conservation efforts have had different results in different places, ranging from violent protest to the discovery of common ground among conservation programs and the various interests of local peoples. The authors examine the connections between local values, material needs, and environmental management regimes. Saving Forests, Protecting People? explores that difficult terrain where culture, the environment, and social policies meet.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Chapter 01. Parks and Protected Areas in the Process of Environmental Globalization
• Chapter 02. Protected Areas in Central America
• Chapter 03. Diverse Cultural Models to Manage Competing Interests in Natural Resource Use in Costa Rica
• Chapter 04. Forest Conservation, Park Management, and Value Change in Honduras
• Chapter 05. Situating Environmental Values in a Globalizing World
• References
• Appendix A: Data Collection and Processing
• Appendix B: Qualitative Interview Guide
• Appendix C: Costa Rica Questionnaire with Summary Data
• Appendix D: Honduras Questionnaire with Summary Data
• Appendix E: Sociodemographic Data for Qualitative Interviewees Quoted
• Acronyms and Organizations
• Index
• About the Authors