{"product_id":"the-greening-of-costa-rica-ana-isla-9781442626713","title":"The Greening of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the concept of sustainable development has become the basis for a vast number of \"green industries\" from eco-tourism to carbon sequestration. In \u003cem\u003eThe \"Greening\" of Costa Rica\u003c\/em\u003e, Ana Isla exposes the results of the economist's rejection of physical limits to growth, the biologist's fetish with such limits, and the indebtedness of peripheral countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsla's case study is the 250,000 hectare Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area, created in the late 1990s as the result of Canada-Costa Rica debt-for-nature swaps. Rather than reducing poverty and creating equality, development in and around the conservation area has dispossessed and disenfranchised subsistence farmers, expropriating their land, water, knowledge, and labour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets such as carbon credits, intellectual property, cash crops, open-pit mining, and eco-tourism, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ana Isla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442626712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442626713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2015","brand":"Ana Isla","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992005148927,"sku":"9781442626713","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c0b31480-1875-4b1b-af96-6b89258603bd.jpg?v=1683313497","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-greening-of-costa-rica-ana-isla-9781442626713","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}