{"product_id":"the-greening-of-costa-rica-women-peasants-indigenous-peoples-and-the-remaking-of-nature-paperback-softback-9781442626713","title":"The \"Greening\" of Costa Rica; Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442626713","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe \"Greening\" of Costa Rica\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAna Isla (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442626713\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 4 figures, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of “green industries” from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration. In \u003cem\u003eThe “Greening” of Costa Rica\u003c\/em\u003e, Ana Isla exposes the results of the economist’s rejection of physical limits to growth, the biologist’s fetish with such limits, and the indebtedness of peripheral countries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsla’s case study is the 250,000 hectare Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area, created in the late 1990s as the result of Canada-Costa Rica debt-for-nature swaps. Rather than reducing poverty and creating equality, development in and around the conservation area has dispossessed and disenfranchised subsistence farmers, expropriating their land, water, knowledge, and labour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets such as carbon credits, intellectual property, cash crops, open-pit mining, and eco-tourism, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Embodied Foreign Debt in the National System of Conservation Areas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1 - Political Economy: Building Costa Rica’s Neo-liberal State\u003cbr\u003e  2 - Political Ecology: Debt-for-Nature and Its Experts\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Embodied Debt-for-Nature: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3 – The Land Plan in Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area: New Natures and New Workers in Fortuna, Z-Trece, Abanico, and Miramar\u003cbr\u003e  4 - Genetics as a Site of Biotechnology or Biopiracy: Dispossession of Indigenous Peoples’ and Peasants’ Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e  5 – Forests as Carbon Sinks: Dispossession of Peasant Access to the Forest\u003cbr\u003e  6 - Scenery as Eco-tourism: Dispossession of Peasant Agricultural Land and the Rise of Prostitution\u003cbr\u003e  7 - Medicinal Plants in Micro-enterprises: The Dispossession of Rural Women’s Labour and Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e  8 - Mountains as Open-Pit Mining Sites: Dispossession of Peasants’ Water and Livelihood\u003cbr\u003e  9 – The Need for Alternative Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735148491032,"sku":"9781442626713","price":25.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-greening-of-costa-rica-women-peasants-indigenous-peoples-and-the-remaking-of-nature-paperback-softback-9781442626713","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}