opinion
PLANET EARTH
We need to start realizing that the goals behind conservation and equity for vulnerable populations are intertwined.
Charles C. Chester teaches global environmental politics at Brandeis University and at the Fletcher School of Tufts University, and serves as the board chair of Bat Conservation International and as chair of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Council. He is currently building the website, GEP-guide.net, an online guide to global environmental politics. He co-edited the volume Conservation & Climate Change: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning and Action (Island Press 2012) and authored Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World (Island Press 2006).