The cultural context of biodiversity conservation - Oapen

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Abbreviations
1 INTRODUCTION - from global to local ........................................................................1
1.1 The interdisciplinary approach ...................................................................................3
1.2 What's it all about?........................................................................................................5
1.3 Research perspectives ..................................................................................................9
1.4 The conceptual scheme .............................................................................................13
2 THE GLOBAL CONTEXT - international policies and local environments..................17
2.1 Biodiversity and indigenous communities..............................................................21
2.2 The Convention on Biological Diversity ................................................................25
2.3 In situ conservation and protected area management ...........................................27
2.4 Biodiversity conservation and indigenous knowledge..........................................29
3 THE DISCURSIVE CONTEXT - conceptual approaches from anthropology ...............35
3.1 Environmental anthropology....................................................................................38
3.1.1 Contributions from political ecology.................................................................42
3.1.2 Biodiversity as transcultural discourse.........................................................44
3.1.3 Conceptualising nature...................................................................................49
3.1.4 Multi-sited ethnography.................................................................................54