William M. Adams is Professor of Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Senior Editor of Oryx: The International Journal of Conservation (CambridgeUniversity Press). His books include Future Nature (Earthscan, 1995; 2nd edn 2003), Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial Era (edited with Martin Mulligan, Earthscan, 2003) and Against Extinction: The Story of Conservation (Earthscan, 2004). His book Green Development was published in 1990 (Routledge, 2nd edn 2001).