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Nature Crime Rosaleen Duffy

Nature Crime By Rosaleen Duffy

Nature Crime by Rosaleen Duffy


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Summary

Investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West's attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory and ultimately very damaging. The author points out that illegal trading is often the direct result of Western consumer desires, from coltan for cellular phones to exotic meats sold to Londoners.

Nature Crime Summary

Nature Crime: How We're Getting Conservation Wrong by Rosaleen Duffy

In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West's attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory, and ultimately very damaging. Analyzing the workings of the black-market wildlife industry, Duffy points out that illegal trading is often the direct result of Western consumer desires, from coltan for cellular phones to exotic meats sold in London street markets. She looks at the role of ecotourism, showing how Western travelers contribute-often unwittingly-to the destruction of natural environments. Most strikingly, she argues that the imperatives of Western-style conservation often result in serious injustice to local people, who are branded as problems and subject to severe restrictions on their way of life and even extrajudicial killings.

Nature Crime Reviews

Heavily researched. . . . The points made are well constructed and contain examples that will open readers' minds to new perspectives on conservation. . . . A must-read for conservationists.-K. K. Goldbeck, Choice

-- K. K. Goldbeck * Choice *

Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the Biology category.

-- Choice Outstanding Academic Title * Choice *

About Rosaleen Duffy

Rosaleen Duffy is Professor at the Centre for International Politics, Manchester University, UK

Additional information

GOR007248937
9780300154344
0300154348
Nature Crime: How We're Getting Conservation Wrong by Rosaleen Duffy
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Yale University Press
20100715
288
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