Privatizing Nature

by Michael Goldman

`An easily read book illuminating the multifarious process of environmental degradation, as well as the motley social movements, especially on a grass-root level, resisting the privatisation of common resources and ecological degradation on both a local and global level.' Capital & Class

Tackling the key themes - such as the convergence of environment and social justice, global commodities, and the role of social movements - the contributors draw on examples from the Amazon, Mexico, Cameroon, India and the industrialised North.

Michael Goldman is MacArthur Fellow of Peace and International Cooperation at the University of California at Berkeley.

Foreword by Susan George 1. Michael Goldman: The Political Resurgence of the Commons 2. Michael Goldman: Theories and practises of the Commons 3. Antonio Carlos Diegues: Social Movement and the Remaking of the Commons in the Brazilian Amazon 4. Lynn Stephen: Between NAFTA and Zapata: Response to the restructuring of the Commons in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico 5. Samuel-Alain Nguiffo: In defence of the Commons: Forest battles in Southern Cameroon 6. Giovanni DiChiro: nature as Community: The nature of Environment and Social Justice 7. Michael Flitner: Biodiversity: Of Local Commons and Global Commodities 8. Sanjeev Pradash: Fairness, Social Capital and the Commons 9. Michael Thompson: Style and scale - Two Sources of of Institutional Inappropriateness Notes on Contributors Index