Green encounters: shaping and contesting environmentalism in rural Costa Rica Luis A. Vivanco.

By: Vivanco, Luis Antonio, 1969-Series: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 3.Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2006Description: xv, 222 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9781845455040Subject(s): Environmentalism -- Costa Rica -- Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso MonteverdeDDC classification: 333.720972 LOC classification: GE199.C8 | V58 2006
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction : encounters in a tropical cloud forest -- Ch. 2. Monte Verde's agricultural environment -- Ch. 3. Uneven terrain : the practice and politics of "saving" Monte Verde -- Ch. 4. Testing the boundaries of environmentalism in a participatory age -- Ch. 5. Dismembering San Gerardo : a cautionary tale of "sustainable development" -- Ch. 6. Contesting "community" in a community conservation project : the fight for the Reserva Santa Elena -- Ch. 7. Quetzals and other(ing) spectacles of tropical nature -- Ch. 8. Conclusion : environmentalism at a crossroads.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-212) and index.

Ch. 1. Introduction : encounters in a tropical cloud forest -- Ch. 2. Monte Verde's agricultural environment -- Ch. 3. Uneven terrain : the practice and politics of "saving" Monte Verde -- Ch. 4. Testing the boundaries of environmentalism in a participatory age -- Ch. 5. Dismembering San Gerardo : a cautionary tale of "sustainable development" -- Ch. 6. Contesting "community" in a community conservation project : the fight for the Reserva Santa Elena -- Ch. 7. Quetzals and other(ing) spectacles of tropical nature -- Ch. 8. Conclusion : environmentalism at a crossroads.

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