Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies Are Failing in West Africa

<p>John Oates tackles one of the most serious challenges facing the world's conservation leaders today: How can the needs of wildlands and wildlife be reconciled with the needs of people? Current conservation theory holds that wildlife can best be protected through the promotion of human economic development. Oates disagrees. Drawing on his extensive experience as a primate ecologist who has worked on rainforest conservation projects in Africa and India, he argues that the linking of conservation to economic development has had disastrous consequences for many wildlife populations, especially in West Africa. He maintains that in those parts of the world where people are very poor, human well-being is more likely to be promoted by large-scale political, social, and economic reforms than by community development schemes associated with conservation projects.</p>

Business & Money

Oates, John F.

Economics

University of California Press

The Ptolemaic Basilikos Grammateus: BASP Suppl. No. 8 (Volume 8)

History

Ancient Civilizations

American Society of Papyrologists

<p>The primary purpose of the Checklist is to provide for scholars and librarians a ready bibliography of all monographic volumes, both current and out-of-print, of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic texts on papyrus, parchment, ostraca or wood tablets. A secondary purpose of the original checklist (first published in 1974) was to establish a standard list of abbreviations for editions of Greek texts. Now this has been largely acheived, this edition aims to expand standardized abbreviations to cover Coptic and Demotic material. In general, this volume offers more complete coverage of demotic material than ever attempted before; especially valuable since this is a growing area of study which lacks bibliographic resources and standard notations.</p>

Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets: Fifth Edition (Volume 9) (American Studies in Papyrology)

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