Isla, Ana, 1948- author.
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015];©2015
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
• Introduction : The greening of Costa Rica — Part I: Foreign debt, debt-for-nature, and the national system of conservation areas. 1 The political economy of Costa Rica’s neoliberal state — 2 Polticial ecology, debt-for-nature, and national conservation areas
• Part II Embodied indebtedness : the remaking of people and nature. 3 Nature and people in the Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area — 4 Biological diverstity and the dispossession of peasants’ knowledge — 5 Forests and peasants’ loss of access — 6 Ecotourism and social development — 7 Women’s microenterprises and social development — 8 Mining and the dispossession of resources and livelihoods — 9 The greening of capitalism.

Subjects:

• Debt-for-nature swaps — Costa Rica.
• Debt-for-nature swaps — Social aspects — Costa Rica.
• Debt-for-nature swaps — Canada.
• Ecology — Economic aspects — Costa Rica.
• Costa Rica — Social conditions — 21st century.
• Human ecology — Costa Rica.
• Debts, External — Costa Rica.
• Debt relief — Costa Rica.
• Costa Rica — Economic policy.
• Sustainable development — Costa Rica.

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