Conservation Politics Last Anti-Colonial Battle David J… Hardcover 9781107199583

Conservation Politics\nby David Johns\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: David Johns\nTitle: Conservation Politics\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Conservation of wildlife and habitats\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781107199583\nISBN-10: 1107199581\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhilst the science of conservation biology is thriving as a discipline, ultimately global conservation is failing. Why, when the majority of people say they value nature and its protection? David Johns argues that the loss of species and healthy ecosystems is best understood as human imposition of a colonial relationship on the non-human world - one of exploitation and domination. Global institutions benefit from transforming nature into commodities, and con.