The Politics of the Biosphere: Ecosystem Conservation, Power, and Land

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Forests and other ecosystems are crucial for societal and environmental reasons; nonetheless, they face significant threats across the world. This class explores the economic and political drivers of ecosystem degradation, the solutions that governments and non-governmental actors have implemented to address the issue, and the challenges to their success. Other topics include territorial and political rights of local communities, common-pool resources management, impact evaluation of anti-deforestation policies, and land reforms, among others.