Failing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed to "fail forward" over time despite its ineffectiveness. At its core, neoliberal conservation promotes market-based instruments intended to reconcile environmental preservation and economic development by harnessing preservation itself as the source of both conservation finance and capital accumulation more generally. Robert Fletcher describes how this project has developed over the past several decades along with the expanding network of organizations and actors that have come together around its promotion. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, he explores why this strategy continues to captivate states, nongovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, and the private sector alike despite its significant deficiencies. Ultimately, Fletcher contends, neoliberal conservation should be understood as a failed attempt to render global capitalism sustainable in the face of its intensifying social and ecological contradictions. Consequently, the only viable alternative capable of simultaneously achieving both environmental sustainability and social equity is a concerted program of "degrowth" grounded in post-capitalist principles.&nbsp;

Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation

Business & Money

Fletcher, Robert

Economics

University of California Press

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Medical Lore in the Older English Dramatists and Poets

History

Wentworth Press

A new, thoroughly practical textbook devoted to the early diagnosis of glaucoma, a common eye disease and a leading cause of blindness. The book includes the most recent advances in research and clinical techniques.

Glaucoma in Optometric Practice (Modern Optometry)

Medical Books

Brown, F. G.

Medicine

Wiley/Blackwell

This book gives concise coverage of the routine eye examination which is the central part of the optometrist's work. From this examination can lead all manner of supplementary tests and decisions for patient management. Divided into three parts, the book covers: examination of the eye (aims, background, methods); oculo-refractive correction (objective and subjective assessment of corrections, prescribing, special patients); and illustrative case reports (patient's working conditions, previous prescriptions, errors to avoid, difficult cases). This book is intended for pre-registration (graduate) optometrists preparing for professional qualifying examinations, dispensing opticians, orthoptists, experienced optometrists, optometry undergraduates, and trainee ophthalmologists.

Eye Examination & Refraction

Allen, R. J.

Still, D. C.

Blackwell Science Inc.

City University, London, U.K. Concise account of contemporary practice and practical technique as carried out by three European practitioners. DNLM: Contact Lens.

Contact Lens Practice: A Clinical Guide

Lupelli, Luigi

Rossi, Angela L.

The Poems & Translations of Robert Fletcher

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

University of Florida Press

Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)

The worldwide development of ecotourism—including adventures such as mountain climbing and whitewater rafting, as well as more pedestrian pursuits such as birdwatching—has been extensively studied, but until now little attention has been paid to why vacationers choose to take part in what are often physically and emotionally strenuous endeavors. Drawing on ethnographic research and his own experiences working as an ecotour guide throughout the United States and Latin America, Robert Fletcher argues that participation in rigorous outdoor activities resonates with the particular cultural values of the white, upper-middle-class Westerners who are the majority of ecotourists. Navigating 13,000-foot mountain peaks or treacherous river rapids demands deferral of gratification, perseverance through suffering, and a willingness to assume risks in pursuit of continuous progress. In this way, characteristics originally cultivated for professional success have been transferred to the leisure realm at a moment when traditional avenues for achievement in the public sphere seem largely exhausted. At the same time, ecotourism provides a temporary escape from the ostensible ills of modern society by offering a transcendent "wilderness" experience that contrasts with the indoor, sedentary, mental labor characteristically performed by white-collar workers.

Industries

Duke University Press Books

The worldwide development of ecotourism—including adventures such as mountain climbing and whitewater rafting, as well as more pedestrian pursuits such as birdwatching—has been extensively studied, but until now little attention has been paid to why vacationers choose to take part in what are often physically and emotionally strenuous endeavors. Drawing on ethnographic research and his own experiences working as an ecotour guide throughout the United States and Latin America, Robert Fletcher argues that participation in rigorous outdoor activities resonates with the particular cultural values of the white, upper-middle-class Westerners who are the majority of ecotourists. Navigating 13,000-foot mountain peaks or treacherous river rapids demands deferral of gratification, perseverance through suffering, and a willingness to assume risks in pursuit of continuous progress. In this way, characteristics originally cultivated for professional success have been transferred to the leisure realm at a moment when traditional avenues for achievement in the public sphere seem largely exhausted. At the same time, ecotourism provides a temporary escape from the ostensible ills of modern society by offering a transcendent "wilderness" experience that contrasts with the indoor, sedentary, mental labor characteristically performed by white-collar workers.

Fletcher Genealogy

Fletcher, Edward H.

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Legare Street Press

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