The "Greening" of Costa Rica : : Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature /

The "Greening" of Costa Rica : : Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature / / Ana Isla.

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 t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Isla, Ana,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2015
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 4 figures, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • THE “GREENING” OF COSTA RICA. Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature
  • Introduction: The “Greening” of Costa Rica
  • Part I: Foreign Debt, Debt-for-Nature, and the National System of Conservation Areas
  • 1. The Political Economy of Costa Rica’s Neoliberal State
  • 2. Political Ecology, Debt-for-Nature, and National Conservation Areas
  • Part II: Embodied Indebtedness: The Remaking of People and Nature
  • 3. Nature and People in the Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area
  • 4. Biological Diversity and the Dispossession of Peasants’ Knowledge
  • 5. Forests and Peasants’ Loss of Access
  • 6. Ecotourism and Social Development
  • 7. Women’s Microenterprises and Social Development
  • 8. Mining and the Dispossession of Resources and Livelihoods
  • 9. The “Greening” of Capitalism
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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