Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups approach global environmental issues. Schelhas and Pfeffer show that globally-driven forest conservation efforts have had different results in different places, ranging from violent protest to the discovery of common ground among conservation programs and the various interests of local peoples. The authors examine the connections between local values, material needs, and environmental management regimes. Saving Forests, Protecting People? explores that difficult terrain where culture, the environment, and social policies meet.

"The authors offer a realistic, penetrating analysis of the values and motivations that shape local response to government policies....Highly recommended." - CHOICE

"The book is divided into five chapters....This organization makes the book useful to a wide audience, including forest and protected area policy makers, the interested public, researchers, faculty and students alike. Additionally, because it contextualizes parks and protected areas both locally and globally, it would be an ideal analysis for use as an environment anthropology, or as a supplement in a forestry or other natural resource management and policy course." - Agric Hum Values