A puzzle

The environment/development constellation in Madagascar

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ID12716680
AuthorsMartin Weber (0000-0002-3533-5850, The University of Queensland, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume18
Issue6
Pages947-965
Publication date2021-01-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2020.1859762
OpenAlexW3123614903
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

In this article, I take up the case of the build-up to Madagascar’s 2009 political crisis in order to provide a critical account of the politics of sustainable development from the ground up. Madagascar has been positioned by the international community as a HIPC, and by virtue of its geographical and ecological situation as a ‘biodiversity hotspot’. Against this backdrop, I focus on efforts by USAID, the World Bank, international investors, and local actors to facilitate land-titling reform as part of a range of measures to encourage the influx of FDI. Drawing out the ecological and the socio-political implications of these plans, which were all advanced in the spirit of ‘sustainable development’, I show that the 2009 coup d’etat was as an expression of the failures to integrate both. The case example of Madagasy experiences with ‘sustainable development’ affords us, I argue, with important lessons about the scope, premises, and political implications of dominant approaches to the ‘governance’ of the ‘development-environment constellation’

Constellation · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental resource management · Management · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science · Sustainable development · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · International Development and Aid · Law

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