The "greening" of Costa Rica : women, peasants, Indigenous peoples, and the remaking of nature /

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Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of "green industries" from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration. In The "Greening" of Costa Rica, Ana Isla exposes the results of the economist's rejec...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Isla, Ana, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015].
Subjects:
2000-2099
Debt-for-nature swaps > Costa Rica.
Debt-for-nature swaps > Social aspects > Costa Rica.
Debt-for-nature swaps > Canada.
Ecology > Economic aspects > Costa Rica.
Human ecology > Costa Rica.
Debts, External > Costa Rica.
Debt relief > Costa Rica.
Sustainable development > Costa Rica.
Échanges dette-nature > Costa Rica.
Échanges dette-nature > Aspect social > Costa Rica.
Échanges dette-nature > Canada.
Écologie > Costa Rica > Aspect économique.
Écologie humaine > Costa Rica.
Dettes extérieures > Costa Rica.
Développement durable > Costa Rica.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Public Finance.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Sustainable development
Social conditions
Human ecology
Economic policy
Ecology > Economic aspects
Debts, External
Debt relief
Debt-for-nature swaps
Debt-nature swap
Umweltschutz
Neoliberalismus
Indigenes Volk
Ausbeutung
Enteignung
Globalisierung
Politisk ekologi.
Ekonomisk politik.
Skuldavskrivning.
Hållbar utveckling.
Costa Rica > Social conditions > 21st century.
Costa Rica > Economic policy.
Area de Conservación Arenal (Costa Rica)
Area de Conservacíon Arenal (Costa Rica)
Costa Rica > Area de Conservación Arenal
Costa Rica
Canada
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of "green industries" from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration. In The "Greening" of Costa Rica, Ana Isla exposes the results of the economist's rejection of physical limits to growth, the biologist's fetish with such limits, and the indebtedness of peripheral countries. Isla's case study is the 250,000 hectare Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area, created in the late 1990s as the result of Canada-Costa Rica debt-for-nature swaps. Rather than reducing poverty and creating equality, development in and around the conservation area has dispossessed and disenfranchised subsistence farmers, expropriating their land, water, knowledge, and labour. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets such as carbon credits, intellectual property, cash crops, open-pit mining, and eco-tourism, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations, map.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index.
ISBN:9781442620032
144262003X

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