Research Catalog

Title

Peace parks : conservation and conflict resolution / edited by Saleem H. Ali.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Ali, Saleem H. (Saleem Hassan), 1973-

Description

xx, 406 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Global environmental accord: strategies for sustainability and institutional innovation

Uniform Title

Global environmental accords.

Subjects

• Transfrontier conservation areas > Political aspects
• Conflict management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-377) and index.

Contents

Introduction : a natural connection between ecology and peace? / Saleem H. Ali -- I. Environmental peace-building : theories and histories -- 1. Measuring peace park performance : definitions and experiences / Anne Hammill and Charles Besancon -- 2. Peace games : theorizing about transboundary conservation / Raul Lejano -- 3. Peace parks and global politics : the paradoxes and challenges of global governance / Rosaleen Duffy -- 4. Scaling peace and peacemakers in transboundary parks : understanding glocalization / Maano Ramutsindela -- 5. Peace parks as social ecological systems : testing environmental resilience in southern Africa / Anna Spenceley and Michael Schoon -- II. Transboundary conservation in action : bioregional management for science and economic development -- 6. Connecting the world's largest elephant ranges : the Selous-Niassa corridor / Rolf D. Baldus, Rudolf Hahn, Christina Ellis and Sarah Dickinson DeLeon -- 7. The "W" International Peace Park : transforming conservation and conflict in West Africa / Aissetou Drame-Yaye, Diallo Daouda Boubacar and Juliette Koudenoukpo Biao -- 8. The emerald triangle protected forests complex : an opportunity for regional collaboration on transboundary biodiversity conservation in Indochina / Yongyut Trisurat -- 9. Conflict avoidance and environmental protection : the antarctic paradigm / Michele Zebich-Knos -- 10. The Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park : conservation amid border security / Randy Tanner, Wayne Freimund, Brace Hayden and Bill Dolan -- III. Peace parks and regional governance regimes : redefining security and realism -- 11. Bridging conservation across La Frontera : an unfinished agenda for peace parks along the US-Mexico divide / Belinda Sifford and Charles Chester -- 12. Liberia : securing the peace through parks / Arthur G. Blundell and Tyler Christie -- 13. Preserving Korea's demilitarized corridor for conservation : a green approach to conflict resolution / Ke Chung Kim -- 14. Nesting cranes : envisioning a Russo-Japanese Peace Park in the Kuril Islands / Jason Lambacher -- 15. The Siachen Peace Park proposal : reconfiguring the Kashmir conflict? / Kent Biringer and K. C. (Nanda) Cariappa -- 16. Linking Afghanistan with its neighbors through peace parks : challenges and prospects / Stephan Fuller -- 17. Iraq and Iran in ecological perspective : the Mesopotamian marshes and the Hawizeh-Azim Peace Park / Michelle L. Stevens -- 18. Conclusion : implementing the vision of peace parks / Saleem H. Ali.

ISBN

• 9780262012355 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262012359 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780262511988 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262511983 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006037129

OCLC

• ocm76416499
• 76416499
• SCSB-5364996

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries