Hottest of the Hotspots - Neimark, Benjamin
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"Continually recognized as one of the "hottest" of all the world's biodiversity hotspots, the island of Madagascar has become ground zero for the most intensive market-based conservation interventions on Earth. This book is about the roll out of market conservation programs, including finding drugs from nature, or bioprospecting, biodiversity offsetting, and selling of blue carbon credits from mangroves. It documents the tensions that exist at the local level as many of these programs incorporate populations highly dependent on the same biodiversity now turned into global commodities for purposes of saving it"--…mehr

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"Continually recognized as one of the "hottest" of all the world's biodiversity hotspots, the island of Madagascar has become ground zero for the most intensive market-based conservation interventions on Earth. This book is about the roll out of market conservation programs, including finding drugs from nature, or bioprospecting, biodiversity offsetting, and selling of blue carbon credits from mangroves. It documents the tensions that exist at the local level as many of these programs incorporate populations highly dependent on the same biodiversity now turned into global commodities for purposes of saving it"--
Autorenporträt
Benjamin Neimark is a senior lecturer at the School of Business and Management and a fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at Queen Mary University of London. He is a human geographer and political ecologist whose research focuses on politics of biological conservation and natural resource extraction.