Jacques PolliniMcGill University | McGill · Department of Anthropology
Jacques Pollini
PhD
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Introduction
I coordinate research activities for the Institutional Canopy of Conservation (I-CAN) project at McGill University. As a Research Associate in this project, over the last five years I have carried out research on resource conflicts and the impacts of wildlife conservation interventions on livelihood and governance patterns in Maasai pastoral societies.
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The human communities and ecosystems of island and coastal southeast Africa face significant and linked ecological threats. Socioecological conditions of concern to communities, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and researchers include declining agricultural productivity, deforestation, introductions of non‐native flora and fauna, coastal...
This paper is an entry for the following encyclopedia: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315640051/chapters/10.4324/9781315640051-41
Book review: https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA511789744&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=09673407&p=AONE&sw=w
This entry presents the “construction of nature” idea and its articulation with various conceptions of nature. It presents the rich outcomes of scholarly work surrounding this idea and the epistemological limits of radical deconstruction efforts often associated with it. It shows that it is possible to escape the ontological dead ends of radical po...
The concept of nature is central in any reflection about the relationships between humans and their environment. It is frequently under attack, which created a divide in academia that might partly explain the science war of the 1990s and that is still latent. This article is an attempt to make a step ahead in this debate. It responds to the anti-es...
In 1996, the Malagasy Government issued the GELOSE law to provide a legal framework for the transfer of natural resources management rights to local communities. Eight years later, management transfers have been implemented in 451 sites, but a controversy exists about whether they genuinely favor community-based management. This article examines th...
Environmental conservation and poverty alleviation are paramount challenges of our time, but are frequently in conflict. This article analyzes this tension in the case of Madagascar. It is based on a review of the literature concerning the Malagasy Environmental Action Plan and on four years the author spent in Madagascar, including two years worki...
It is recurrently argued that political ecologists, by overlooking biophysical realities, misinterpret ecological interactions and underestimate environmental degradation. This article investigates the relevance of these critiques in the case of the Malagasy highlands. It is based on an analysis of three environmental narratives: a narrative develo...
Launched in 1994, the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme is a multidisciplinary collaborative research effort aimed at addressing the issue of deforestation. This article analyzes the genesis and the history of this research effort and the causes of its successes and failures. I will show that despite the genuine commitment of the ASB Program...
The carbon market recently appeared as a new way to finance conservation programs in Madagascar. Based on an analysis of a pioneer carbon sequestration project co-financed by the Biocarbon Fund of the World Bank, I contend in this article that this new approach will fail to contribute to the protection of Malagasy biodiversity. A first argument is...
Madagascar is a threatened biodiversity hotspot that has attracted the attention
of conservation biologists and donor agencies for over two decades. The remaining
primary forests are being cleared at a fast pace by farmers pushed toward the forest
frontier and practicing slash-and-burn cultivation. A National Environmental Action
Plan, supported by...