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Fortress Conservation Trumps Human Rights? The “Marine Protected Area” in the Chagos Archipelago

The new "marine protected area" proclaimed in 2010 in the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory [BIOT]) raises a fundamental conflict between colonial nature protection and the human rights of the indigenous Chagos islanders who were expelled to make way for a U.S. military base, and whose resettlement in the archipelago the U.K. government now seeks to prevent by invoking global environmental concerns.

Authors

Sand Peter .

Year

1

DOI

10.1177/1070496511435666

ISBN-13

0

Keywords

climate change, human rights, law of the sea, marine environment, small islands, Marine Protected Area

Link

http://jed.sagepub.com/content/21/1/36.abstract