The political ecology of conserving tropical rain forests: a cross-national analysis

摘要: During the past three decades, conservation groups have tried to conserve tropical biodiversity primarily by lobbying for creation of parks. Critics condemned this strategy because parks deny valuable natural resources poor peoples who live around them. Despite controversy, we know little about political and ecological conditions that facilitate in tropics. We outline these facilitating through analyses data on rain forests social 63 nations. The analysis supports a "countercoalition" hypothesis park which threats destroy trigger activity environmentalists, results reserves. By clarifying under occurs, suggests situation specific guidelines may resolve controversy strategies.