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The political ecology of conservation, social change and dispossession on a Philippine frontier – By Wolfram Heinz

The political ecology of conservation, social change and dispossession on a Philippine frontier –... The political ecology of conservation, social change and dispossession on a Philippine frontier Wolfram Heinz Dressler ( 2009 ) Old Thoughts in New Ideas: State Conservation Measures, Development and Livelihood on Palawan Island . Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press , 275 pp., price unknown, ISBN : 978‐971‐550‐598‐7 . Wolfram Dressler's first book, Old Thoughts in New Ideas , uses political ecology to tell an increasingly familiar, but nonetheless important, story about how ‘community‐based conservation’ can revert to coercive measures, become entangled with local politics and distribute its costs and benefits in systematically uneven ways. Based largely on the author's 2005 dissertation in geography, Old Thoughts represents a long‐term case study of the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), which is located on the west coast of Palawan Island in the southwestern Philippines. Focusing on a region often described as the Philippines' ‘last frontier’, Dressler's primary interest is in how the PPSRNP has affected social relations between the indigenous Tagbanua and the ethnically heterogeneous population of migrants that have settled in the area since the 1950s. Evidence is drawn from the author's considerable fieldwork around the PPSRNP over the past decade, during which he has http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Pacific Viewpoint Wiley

The political ecology of conservation, social change and dispossession on a Philippine frontier – By Wolfram Heinz

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint , Volume 52 (2) – Aug 1, 2011
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The political ecology of conservation, social change and dispossession on a Philippine frontier Wolfram Heinz Dressler ( 2009 ) Old Thoughts in New Ideas: State Conservation Measures, Development and Livelihood on Palawan Island . Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press , 275 pp., price unknown, ISBN : 978‐971‐550‐598‐7 . Wolfram Dressler's first book, Old Thoughts in New Ideas , uses political ecology to tell an increasingly familiar, but nonetheless important, story about how ‘community‐based conservation’ can revert to coercive measures, become entangled with local politics and distribute its costs and benefits in systematically uneven ways. Based largely on the author's 2005 dissertation in geography, Old Thoughts represents a long‐term case study of the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), which is located on the west coast of Palawan Island in the southwestern Philippines. Focusing on a region often described as the Philippines' ‘last frontier’, Dressler's primary interest is in how the PPSRNP has affected social relations between the indigenous Tagbanua and the ethnically heterogeneous population of migrants that have settled in the area since the 1950s. Evidence is drawn from the author's considerable fieldwork around the PPSRNP over the past decade, during which he has

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