Corporate Nature: An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation by Sarah Milne (2023) 272 pp., The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, USA. ISBN 978-0-8165-4701-2 (e-book), USD 35.00.

Abstract

After many years of effort and advocacy, it is now widely agreed that social research has a vital role to play in biodiversity conservation. This research comes in various different forms and flavours, based on different objectives, methods and disciplinary perspectives. Some are obviously useful to conservation, such as studies of factors influencing pro-environmental decisions amongst consumers. Others may at first glance appear less useful, and even hostile or damaging to conservation, but have the potential to offer profound longer-term value if taken seriously.