TY - BOOK AU - Kashwan, Prakash AU - Kashwan, Prakash. TI - Democracy in the woods: : environmental conservation and social justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico SN - 9780190053314 U1 - 363.700 KAS PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - : Oxford University Press KW - Social problems & social services KW - Other social problems & services KW - Environmental protection -- Political aspects -- India KW - Social justice -- Mexico KW - Tanzania KW - Environmental protection -- Political aspects -- Mexico N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -