1st Edition
Rethinking Resource Management Justice, Sustainability and Indigenous Peoples
By Richard Howitt
Copyright 2001
468 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers students and practitioners a sophisticated and convincing framework for rethinking the usual approaches to resource management. It uses case studies to argue that professional resource managers do not take responsibility for the social and environmental consequences of their decisions on the often vulnerable indigenous communities they affect. It also discusses the invisibility of... Read more
List of figures, List of maps, List of plates, List of tables, Preface, Acknowledgements, PART I Introduction (and disorientation), PART II Ways of seeing, PART III Ways of thinking, PART IV Case studies, PART V Ways of doing, PART VI From theory to praxis, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Howitt, Richard
'This is an important book that will change the way in which students and even professionals think about their subject. As such, it is highly recommended as a core text on all courses dealing with resources and how they are managed. The author is to be congratulated on having done an important service for the field - not least by demonstrating how passionate personal commitment can become essential scholarship.' - Geographical Association
