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  • GREEN GRABBING: A NEW APPROPRIATION OF NATURE
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    GREEN GRABBING: A NEW APPROPRIATION OF NATURE
    JAMES FAIRHEAD / MELISSA LEACH / IAN SCOONES
    Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel. Yet in other cases, environmental gr...

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  • VACCINE ANXIETIES
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    VACCINE ANXIETIES
    JAMES FAIRHEAD / MELISSA LEACH
    This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological perspective with detailed field research, the book examines anxieties emerging as highly g...

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  • REFRAMING DEFORESTATION
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    REFRAMING DEFORESTATION
    JAMES FAIRHEAD / MELISSA LEACH
    This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors evaluate this orthodox critically. Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of de...

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  • DYNAMIC SUSTAINABILITIES
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    DYNAMIC SUSTAINABILITIES
    MELISSA LEACH / ANDREW CHARLES STIRLING / IAN SCOONES
    Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite grow...

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