Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia

by Susan M. Darlington

A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state forest management, tropical ecology, imperial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822331497
• ISBN13: 9780822331490
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"