This review examines the social, economic, and political effects of environmental
conservation projects as they are manifested in protected areas. We pay special attention to …

This paper presents a framework to understand how conservation, in particular protected
areas and national parks, are resisted, based on theories of subaltern politics and a review …

In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand,
Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of …

Using the case of the expansion of Madagascar's protected areas, this paper examines
'state'territorialization under neoliberalism as a process that involves non-state as well as …

Protected areas are a key tool for conservation policy but their economic impacts are not
well understood. This paper presents new evidence about the local effects of strictly …

One of the remarkable transformati-ons of the conservation community in recent years has
been the proliferation of sociocultural anthropologists in and around protected areas and in …

Laos-the Lao People's Democratic Republic-is one of the least understood and studied
countries of Asia. Its development trajectory is also one of the most interesting, as it moves …

The idea that the support of local people is essential for the success of protected areas is
widespread in conservation, underpinning various conservation paradigms and policies, yet …

The logic of the market economy increasingly informs the design and the outcomes of
conservation in the develo** world. This paper uses case studies from Thailand and the …

This article argues for the reconceptualization of park–people conflict, not as a process
whereby state space erases or destroys local space, but as a moment of spatial …