TY - BOOK AU - West, Paige AU - West, Paige, TI - Conservation is our government now: : the politics of ecology in Papua New Guinea T2 - New ecologies for the twenty-first century SN - 9780822337492 U1 - 333.720 WES PY - 2006/// CY - Durham PB - : Duke University Press, KW - Economics KW - Economics of land and energy KW - Gimi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social conditions KW - Conservation of natural resources -- Papua New Guinea KW - Papua New Guinea -- Economic conditions KW - Ecology KW - Nature conservation KW - Gimi KW - Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Papua New Guinea KW - Papua New-Guinea N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -