Privatizing Nature
Political Struggles for the Global Commons

An examination of the many controversial appropriations of nature by private concerns, from the rain forests to the gene pool.

'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.

The political resurgence of the Commons, Michael Goldman
theories and practices of the Commons, Michael Goldman
social movement and the remaking of the Commons in the Brazilian Amazon, Antonion Carlos Diegues
between NAFTA and Zapata - response to the restructuring of the Commons in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, Lynn Stephen
in defence of the Commons - forest battles in southern Cameroon, Samuel-Alain Nguiffo
some theoretical aspects of the new Commons in industrialized countries, Maria Mies and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
the nature of environment and social justice, Giovanni DiChiro
biodiversity - of local Commons and global commodities, Michael Flitner
style and scale - two sources of institutional inappropriateness, Michael Thompson
fairness, social capital and the Commons, Sanjeev Pradash.