Shifting Environmental Governance in a Neoliberal World: US AID for Conservation

Capitalism and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 108-134

  Corson, Catherine ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

"Civil Society" led environmentalism; BINGOs, international conservation; Conservation and neoliberalism; Environmental NGOs; international biodiversity; Shifting environmental governance; State led environmental foreign aid; US Agency for International Development (USAID); USAID's biodiversity funding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885557617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444391442.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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