Environmental Governance in Latin America / edited by Fabio De Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro, Fábio de, 1967- Editor.

Contributor:

Castro, Fábio de, 1967- Editor.

Hogenboom, Barbara, Editor.

Baud, Michiel., Editor.

Series:

Political Science and International Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Economic development.

Sustainability.

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Environmental policy.

Environmental law.

Political Science.

Development Studies.

Latin American Culture.

Environmental Policy.

Environmental Law.

Local Subjects:

Political Science.

Development Studies.

Sustainability.

Latin American Culture.

Environmental Policy.

Environmental Law.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiiI, 338 pages) : b illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals have led to a myriad of contrasting initiatives that are reshaping social relations and rural territories. This edited collection addresses these tensions by unpacking environmental governance as a complex process of formulating and contesting values, procedures and practices shaping the access, control and use of natural resources. Contributors from various fields address the challenges, limitations, and possibilities for a more sustainable, equal, and fair development. In this book, environmental governance is seen as an overarching concept defining the dynamic and multi-layered repertoire of society-nature interactions, where images of nature and discourses on the use of natural resources are mediated by contextual processes at multiple scales.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America

Part I Setting the Stage

1 Origins and Perspectives of Latin American Environmentalism

2 Social Metabolism and Conflicts over Extractivism

3 Indigenous Knowledge in Mexico: Between Environmentalism and Rural Development

Part II New Politics of Natural Resources

4 The Government of Nature: Post-Neoliberal Environmental Governance in Bolivia and Ecuador

5 Changing Elites, Institutions and Environmental Governance

6 Water-Energy-Mining and Sustainable Consumption: Views of South American Strategic Actors

7 Overcoming Poverty Through Sustainable Development

Part III New Projects of Environmental Governance

8 Forest Governance in Latin America: Strategies for Implementing REDD

9 Rights, Pressures and Conservation in Forest Regions of Mexico

10 Local Solutions for Environmental Justice

11 Community Consultations: Local Responses to Large-Scale Mining in Latin America

Afterword: From Sustainable Development to Environmental Governance

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781137505729 (PDF ebook)

OCLC:

945947752

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access