Nature Crime

How We're Getting Conservation Wrong

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ID8080359
AuthorsRosaleen Duffy, Rosaleen V Duffy (0000-0002-6779-7240, corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages288
Publication date2010-08-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNature Crime (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherYale University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.12987/9780300154351
OpenAlexW1885789557
Open LibraryOL29124333M
ISBN9780300154351
LanguageEN
Citations received48

In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West's attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory and ultimately very damaging. Analysing the workings of the black-market wildlife industry, Duffy points out that illegal trading is often the direct result of Western consumer desires, from coltan for cellular phones to exotic meats sold to Londoners. She looks at the role of ecotourism, showing how Western travellers contribute - often unwittingly - to the destruction of natural environments. Most strikingly, she argues that the imperatives of Western-style conservation often result in serious injustice to local people, who are branded as 'problems' and subject to severe restrictions on their way of life and even extrajudicial killings

Archaeology · Black market · Criminology · Ecotourism · Endangered species · Environmental ethics · Geography · Injustice · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Tourism · Wildlife · Wildlife conservation · Wildlife trade · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses · Environmental responsibility · Human ecology · Nature · Nature conservation · Political aspects · Social aspects · Wild animal trade · Wildlife crimes · Ecology · Law

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