{"product_id":"the-greening-of-costa-rica-9781442649361","title":"The Greening of Costa Rica","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue  Introduction  Part I: Embodied Foreign Debt in the National System of Conservation Areas  1 - Political Economy: Building Costa Rica's Neo-liberal State  2 - Political Ecology: Debt-for-Nature and Its Experts  Part II: Embodied Debt-for-Nature: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature  3 - The Land Plan in Arenal-Tilaran Conservation Area: New Natures and New Workers in Fortuna, Z-Trece, Abanico, and Miramar  4 - Genetics as a Site of Biotechnology or Biopiracy: Dispossession of Indigenous Peoples' and Peasants' Knowledge  5 - Forests as Carbon Sinks: Dispossession of Peasant Access to the Forest  6 - Scenery as Eco-tourism: Dispossession of Peasant Agricultural Land and the Rise of Prostitution  7 - Medicinal Plants in Micro-enterprises: The Dispossession of Rural Women's Labour and Knowledge  8 - Mountains as Open-Pit Mining Sites: Dispossession of Peasants' Water and Livelihood  9 - The Need for Alternative Relations","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408372179287,"sku":"9781442649361","price":47.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-greening-of-costa-rica-9781442649361","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}