Celebrity and the Environment Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation

Name: Celebrity and the Environment Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation
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ISBN: 9781842779743

ISBN-10: 1842779745

ISBN-13: 9781842779743

Edition: 2009

Authors: Dan Brockington

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Celebrities are increasingly lending their name to conservation causes, and conservation itself is growing its own stars to fight and speak for nature. In this book, Dan Brockington argues that this alliance grows from the mutually supportive publicity celebrity and conservation causes provide for each other, and more fundamentally, that the flourishing of celebrity and charismatic conservation is part of an ever-closer intertwining of conservation and corporate capitalism.Saving the Worlddiagnoses an ironic impoverishment of our relationship with nature. While wildlife television documentaries flourish, there is a significant decline in visits to national parks around the world. Far from…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 7/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 205
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Glossary


Introduction


The Players


The Policy


Limits of Leverage


Futures


Notes


Suggested Further Reading