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Peace Parks : Conservation and Conflict Resolution.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (429 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262266970
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Peace ParksDDC classification:
  • 333.95/16
LOC classification:
  • S944.5.P78P43 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Introduction A Natural Connection between Ecology and Peace? -- 1 Measuring Peace Park Performance: Definitions and Experiences -- 2 Peace Games: Theorizing about Transboundary Conservation -- 3 Peace Parks and Global Politics: The Paradoxes and Challenges of Global Governance -- 4 Scaling Peace and Peacemakers in Transboundary Parks: Understanding Glocalization -- 5 Peace Parks as Social Ecological Systems: Testing Environmental Resilience in Southern Africa -- II Transboundary Conservation in Action: Bioregional Management and Economic Development -- 6 Connecting the World's Largest Elephant Ranges: The Selous-Niassa Corridor -- 7 The ''W'' International Peace Park: Transforming Conservation and Conflict in West Africa -- 8 The Emerald Triangle Protected Forests Complex: An Opportunity for Regional Collaboration on Transboundary Biodiversity Conservation in Indochina -- 9 Conflict Avoidance and Environmental Protection: The Antarctic Paradigm -- 10 The Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park: Conservation amid Border Security -- 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 -- 12 Liberia: Securing the Peace through Parks -- 13 Preserving Korea's Demilitarized Corridor for Conservation: A Green Approach to Conflict Resolution -- 14 Nesting Cranes: Envisioning a Russo-Japanese Peace Park in the Kuril Islands -- 15 The Siachen Peace Park Proposal: Reconfiguring the Kashmir Conflict? -- 16 Linking Afghanistan with Its Neighbors through Peace Parks: Challenges and Prospects -- 17 Iraq and Iran in Ecological Perspective: The Mesopotamian Marshes and the Hawizeh-Azim Peace Park.
18 Conclusion: Implementing the Vision of Peace Parks -- References -- Index.
Summary: An analysis of the potential for environmental cooperation in multijurisdictional conservation zones to contribute to political conflict resolution; includes case studies of existing parks and proposals for new ones.
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Intro -- Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Introduction A Natural Connection between Ecology and Peace? -- 1 Measuring Peace Park Performance: Definitions and Experiences -- 2 Peace Games: Theorizing about Transboundary Conservation -- 3 Peace Parks and Global Politics: The Paradoxes and Challenges of Global Governance -- 4 Scaling Peace and Peacemakers in Transboundary Parks: Understanding Glocalization -- 5 Peace Parks as Social Ecological Systems: Testing Environmental Resilience in Southern Africa -- II Transboundary Conservation in Action: Bioregional Management and Economic Development -- 6 Connecting the World's Largest Elephant Ranges: The Selous-Niassa Corridor -- 7 The ''W'' International Peace Park: Transforming Conservation and Conflict in West Africa -- 8 The Emerald Triangle Protected Forests Complex: An Opportunity for Regional Collaboration on Transboundary Biodiversity Conservation in Indochina -- 9 Conflict Avoidance and Environmental Protection: The Antarctic Paradigm -- 10 The Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park: Conservation amid Border Security -- 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 -- 12 Liberia: Securing the Peace through Parks -- 13 Preserving Korea's Demilitarized Corridor for Conservation: A Green Approach to Conflict Resolution -- 14 Nesting Cranes: Envisioning a Russo-Japanese Peace Park in the Kuril Islands -- 15 The Siachen Peace Park Proposal: Reconfiguring the Kashmir Conflict? -- 16 Linking Afghanistan with Its Neighbors through Peace Parks: Challenges and Prospects -- 17 Iraq and Iran in Ecological Perspective: The Mesopotamian Marshes and the Hawizeh-Azim Peace Park.

18 Conclusion: Implementing the Vision of Peace Parks -- References -- Index.

An analysis of the potential for environmental cooperation in multijurisdictional conservation zones to contribute to political conflict resolution; includes case studies of existing parks and proposals for new ones.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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