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April 01 2009
Changing the Landscape of Power (Innovations Case Narrative: Amazon Conservation Team)
Mark J. Plotkin
Mark J. Plotkin
Mark J. Plotkin is the co-founder (with Liliana Madrigal) and president of the Amazon Conservation Team. Plotkin received the San Diego Zoo Gold Medal for Conservation (1993) and the Roy Chapman Andrews Distinguished Explorer Award (2004). Time magazine called him an “Environmental Hero for the Planet” (2001) and Smithsonian Magazine hailed him as one of “35 Who Made a Difference” (2005).
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Mark J. Plotkin
Mark J. Plotkin is the co-founder (with Liliana Madrigal) and president of the Amazon Conservation Team. Plotkin received the San Diego Zoo Gold Medal for Conservation (1993) and the Roy Chapman Andrews Distinguished Explorer Award (2004). Time magazine called him an “Environmental Hero for the Planet” (2001) and Smithsonian Magazine hailed him as one of “35 Who Made a Difference” (2005).
Plotkin and Madrigal are 2008 recipients Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
This case narrative first appeared in a special edition of Innovations produced in partnership with the Skoll Foundation and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University for the 2009 Skoll World Forum.
Online Issn: 1558-2485
Print Issn: 1558-2477
© 2009 Tagore LLC.
2009
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (2009) 4 (2): 13–25.
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Mark J. Plotkin; Changing the Landscape of Power (Innovations Case Narrative: Amazon Conservation Team). Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2009; 4 (2): 13–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/itgg.2009.4.2.13
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