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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Geographies of borrowed time -- Overland on foot, aloft: an anatomy of the social structure -- Land and languor: on what makes good work -- Toward a new nature: rank and value in conservation bureaucracy -- Contracting space: making deals in a global hot spot -- How the dead matter: the production of heritage -- Cooked rice wages: internal contradiction and subjective experience -- Epilogue: workers of the vanishing world. |
| Summary |
Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from the forest balance their needs with the desire of the state to earn foreign revenue from ecotourism and forest-based enterprises. Genese Marie Sodikoff examines how the appreciation and protection of Madagascar's biodiversity depend on manual labor. She exposes the moral dilemmas workers face as both co. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Forest conservation -- Madagascar.
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Forest conservation. |
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Madagascar. |
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Forest biodiversity conservation -- Madagascar.
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Forest biodiversity conservation. |
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Forests and forestry -- Economic aspects -- Madagascar.
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Forests and forestry -- Economic aspects. |
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Rural poor -- Madagascar.
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Rural poor. |
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Madagascar -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sodikoff, Genese Marie, 1966- Forest and labor in Madagascar. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012 9780253003096 (DLC) 2012010378 (OCoLC)752072623 |
| ISBN |
9780253005847 (electronic book) |
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0253005841 (electronic book) |
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9780253003096 |
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0253003091 |
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9780253005779 |
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0253005779 |
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