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Refugees from conservation

global conservation's hundred year misunderstanding with native people

By Mark Dowie

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Publish Date

2009

Publisher

MIT Press

Language

eng

Pages

341

Description:

"Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story"--Page 2 of cover.