'Bedouin overgrazing' and conservation politics: Challenging ideas of pastoral destruction in South Sinai

Biological Conservation

Volumn 160, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-69

  Gilbert, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation policy; Environmental narratives; Indigenous marginalization; Overgrazing; Pastoral commons

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARGINALIZATION; OVERGRAZING;

EGYPT; JANUB SINA; SAINT KATHERINE PROTECTORATE;

EID: 84873493150     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.12.022     Document Type: Review

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