Title The "greening" of Costa Rica : women, peasants, Indigenous peoples, and the remaking of nature / Ana Isla

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations, map Contents 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 Political 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 diversity 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 Summary Since 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 The "Greening" of Costa Rica, 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. Isla'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. Drawing 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index Notes Print version record Subject Debt-for-nature swaps -- Costa Rica Debt-for-nature swaps -- Social aspects -- Costa Rica Debt-for-nature swaps -- Canada Ecology -- Economic aspects -- Costa Rica Human ecology -- Costa Rica Debts, External -- Costa Rica Debt relief -- Costa Rica Sustainable development -- Costa Rica BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Finance. NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection. Sustainable development Social conditions Human ecology Economic policy Ecology -- Economic aspects Debts, External Debt relief Debt-for-nature swaps Debt-nature swap Umweltschutz Neoliberalismus Indigenes Volk Ausbeutung Enteignung Globalisierung Politisk ekologi. Ekonomisk politik. Skuldavskrivning. Hållbar utveckling. SUBJECT Costa Rica -- Social conditions -- 21st century Costa Rica -- Economic policy Area de Conservación Arenal (Costa Rica) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001003008 Subject Costa Rica -- Area de Conservación Arenal Costa Rica Canada Costa Rica Form Electronic book LC no. 2015490536 ISBN 9781442620032 144262003X

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