Browsing by Author "Redford, Kent"

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Conservation and Displacement: An Overview
(2009) Agrawal, Arun; Redford, Kent
"This paper examines displacement in a historical light and compares conservation-related displacements to human displacements caused by development projects. It examines some of the justifications advanced in favor of displacing humans for conservation, and the extent to which these justifications survive in the face of vociferous human rights criticisms. It ends with a review of the different potential responses that conservation organizations can adopt in the face of what is one of the most critical problems confronting conservation worldwide, especially conservation that relies on territorial set-asides, and at a critical time in global conservation."
No Roads, Only Directions
(2006) Redford, Kent; Sanderson, Steven E.
"An old saying about Russia says that it is a country with no roads, only directions. This punch line is uncomfortably apt for the most recent dilemma facing protected areas. Born to save nature as a public good these expressions of humanity's desire have become truly contested terrain in fact as well as in the latest of a set of critiques. This situation, laid out in the thoughtful review by Rangarajan and Shahabuddin (this issue), hinges on the competing moral positions of those defending the nature found in protected areas and those defending the rights of people living in the same areas. The truly tortured nature of the current situation is that there is no obvious, global solution and little positive experience on which to base even local solutions. There is no scarcity of those who would impose their own particular solutions on the willing and the unwilling - that is, to propose a new set of directions into areas that have no roads. The predictable result is to discourage or overwhelm those trying to develop maps and build roads, or, even worse, to build detours around the routes that have yet to be tested."
Place, Conservation, and Displacement
(2009) Agrawal, Arun; Redford, Kent
From p. 56: "The special section contains different and differently articulated views about whether displacement is a term more appropriately reserved for physical removal and resettlement or if it should include the economic, social, cultural, and other forms of loss resulting from protected areas. The issues at stake are both intellectual and practical."