Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers

Geoforum

Volumn 69, Issue , 2016, Pages 227-237

  Massé, Francis ^a   Lunstrum, Elizabeth ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accumulation by dispossession; Commercial poaching wildlife crime; Displacement; Neoliberal conservation green grabbing; Securitization; Transboundary conservation

Indexed keywords

NATURE CONSERVATION; NEOLIBERALISM; POACHING; SECURITY;

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTH AFRICA;

AGONIDAE;

EID: 84955157353     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

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