: environmental conservation and social justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico Kashwan, Prakash creator Kashwan, Prakash. text New York : Oxford University Press 2017 monographic eng

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xx, 311 pages ; 24 cm 24cm. Democracy in the Woods' examines the trajectories of forest and land rights in India, Tanzania, and Mexico to explain how societies negotiate the tensions between environmental protection and social justice. It shows that the social consequences of environmental protection depend, almost entirely, on political intermediation of competing claims to environmental resources The politics and political economy of forestland regimes -- The origins and divergences of national forestland regimes -- Colonialism and the transformation of hinterlands -- Politics of "development" and national forestland regimes -- Political mediation of land conflicts in hinterlands -- Politics of institutional change -- Politics of institutional change -- Politics of institutional change in India's forestland regimes -- Politics of institutional change in Tanzania and Mexico -- Politics of institutional change in Tanzania and Mexico -- Policy differences and key lessons -- Public accountability in policy-making: forest-based climate change mitigation in India, Tanzania, and Mexico -- Conclusion: toward social justice and enduring nature conservation. / Prakash Kashwan Social problems & social services Other social problems & services Environmental protection -- Political aspects -- India Environmental protection -- Political aspects -- India Environmental protection -- Political aspects -- India Social justice -- Mexico Social justice -- Mexico Social justice -- Mexico Tanzania Environmental protection -- Political aspects -- Mexico Environmental protection -- Political aspects -- India 363.700 KAS 9780190053314 :Donated from Rajeswari Raina 191001 20191001161746.0