Author's Keywords: Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism, Conservation, Social Justice, Biodiversity, Globalilzation, Democratic Pragmatism, Green Political Theory	Convention Need a solution for abstract management? All Academic can help! Contact us today to find out how our system can help your annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
Association: Name: WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION URL: http://www.csus.edu/ORG/WPSA/
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Lambacher, Jason. "Beyond Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism? Social Justice Critiques of Conservation and Implications for Biodiversity Protection" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, La Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, Mar 08, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-11-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p176527_index.html>

Lambacher, J. , 2007-03-08 "Beyond Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism? Social Justice Critiques of Conservation and Implications for Biodiversity Protection" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, La Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada Online <PDF>. 2008-11-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p176527_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Abstract: This paper is an attempt to read the history of the anthropocentric/ecocentric debate in the field of green political theory, and the efforts to get beyond it, in connection with recent social critiques of conservation regimes in a global context. In so doing it seeks to understand the theoretical contours of a problem that vexes conservation politics, notably the labor to integrate biodiversity protection with social justice. Perplexing questions of where, what, how, and for whom biodiversity should be protected complicate conservation politics on global, national, and sub-national levels. I argue that the move toward democratic pragmatism in green political theory and conservation politics is strongly influenced by social critiques of the global proliferation of conservation regimes. These critiques are largely a welcome development for biodiversity conservation, and for green political theory, because it focuses on the political legitimacy of conservation regimes. But I question whether democratic pragmatism really transcends the anthropocentrism/ecocentrism debate, as is sometimes claimed. The answer depends on what is meant by both democracy and pragmatism. If democratic pragmatism simply amounts to the victory of anthropocentric argument and the vanquishing of ecocentric approaches to conservation, then getting beyond the old debate doesn�t represent anything new and will not arrest biodiversity loss over the long-term. Conservation discourse that only permits anthropocentric values is susceptible to being trumped by a version of democracy controlled by short-term economic interests. But alternate versions of democracy and pragmatism, drawing from both anthropocentric and ecocentric arguments, are much more promising for biodiversity protection, focusing as they do on economic restraint and ecologically responsible versions of public goods. So instead of seeing anthropocentrism and ecocentrism divided by an abstract and insurmountable dualism forever separating humans from nature, I view them as conceptual poles around which different, but not fatally different, sources of social and ecological justice can be brought together in the promising meadows of democratic pragmatism.

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