{"product_id":"9781442626713","title":"The \"Greening\" of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and the Remaking of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 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 \u003ci\u003eThe “Greening” of Costa Rica\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsla’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 such as carbon credits, intellectual property, cash crops, open-pit mining, and eco-tourism, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043197174000,"sku":"9781442626713","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442626713_p0.jpg?v=1763806442","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442626713","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}