Linking neoprotectionism and environmental governance: On the rapidly increasing tensions between actors in the environment-development Nexus

Conservation and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 586-611

  Büscher, Bram ^a,b   Dressler, Wolfram ^c,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Commodification of nature; Conservation; Development; Governance; Neoliberalism; Transfrontier conservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064674154     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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