Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar
Catherine A. Corson
Abstract
Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent millions of dollars to preserve Madagascar's rich biological diversity. Yet its habitats are still in decline. Studying forty years of policy making in multiple sites, this book reveals how blaming impoverished Malagasy farmers for Madagascar's environmental decline has avoided challenging other drivers of deforestation, such as the logging and mining industries. This ethnographic study reveals how Madagascar's environmental program reflects the transformation of global environmental governance under neoliberalism.
Keywords: neoliberalism, Madagascar, biological diversity, Malagasy farmers, environmental decline, deforestation, global environmental governance, environmental program
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300212273 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2017 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300212273.001.0001 |
