Sustainability Inverted

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“Professor Sato offers an incisive framework without flamethrowing, but rather through a highly constructive structural analysis of relationships among conservation initiatives, politics, and international interactions. Professor Sato’s insights hold far beyond the Southeast Asian region.”
—William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics, Claremont McKenna College

“In a masterful comparative study of four Asian nations, Jin Sato refocuses our attention from the manifest intentions of environmental policy to the actual processes of implementation. When policy interventions become the problem as opposed to the solution, this turns local communities into adversaries instead of collaborators—which Jin Sato calls ‘inversion.’ This book will take its place alongside others that redirect our attention from the reality that states and markets would have us believe in, to the reality that local communities actually inhabit.”
—Michael R. Dove, author of Hearsay Is Not Excluded

“Sustainability Inverted invites us to question the entrenched power and incentive structures undermining environmental management. By illuminating social and political interdependencies, Jin Sato articulates a compelling strategy for unlocking the cooperation essential to effective and just global environmental governance.”
—Joshua Fisher, author of Managing Environmental Conflict

Jin Sato is a Professor of Development Studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo.

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