Rough Waters : Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park

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Summary: Recommended for college-level students of ecology
Review: Recommended for college-level students of ecology and anthropology alike is Christine J. Walley's Rough Waters: Nature And Development In An East African Marine Park. While Walley's topic may seem narrow initially, Rough Waters examines important struggles over access to and use of natural resources, using the Mafia Island Marine Park in Tanzania as a study reflective of world concerns and issues. Walley is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT: her story of a park which became the center of political conflict during its creation in the mid-1990s holds wide-reaching implications for world ecology issues.