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West, Paige

Conservation is our government now : the politics of ecology in Papua New Guinea / Paige West - Durham : Duke University Press, 2006 - xxx, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - New ecologies for the twenty-first century. .

New Guinea-New York --
Making Crater Mountain --
Articulations, histories, development --
Conservation histories --
A land of pure possibility --
The practices of conservation-as-development --
Exchanging conservation for development.

This is an examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area - the site of a biodiversity conservation project implemented between 1994 and 1999.

ISBN: 9780822337492

Publisher. No.: International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economics
Economics of land and energy
Gimi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social conditions.
Conservation of natural resources -- Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea -- Economic conditions.
Ecology.
Nature conservation.
Gimi
Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Papua New Guinea.
Papua New-Guinea.

Dewey Class. No.: 333.720 WES