Environmental Governance in Latin America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Fabio De Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-06
Mått140 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt577 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor338
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137505712

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Fabio de Castro is Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies and Brazilian Studies at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include local governance of natural resources, protected areas, agrarian transformations, and biofuel expansion in Latin America. Barbara Hogenboom is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at CEDLA. Her research interests include Latin American policies and politics of mineral extraction and natural resource use, and the influence of China's rise on the region.Michiel Baud is Director of CEDLA. His research interests includes indigenista ideologies and their influence on present-day academic interpretations of the Andes, the role of ethnic movements in Latin American politics, the construction of collective memories in present-day Latin America and the relationship between ethnic relations and environmental ideas in 19th and 20th century Latin America.

Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America; Fabio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom and Michiel BaudPART I: SETTING THE STAGE1. Origins and Perspectives of Latin American Environmentalism; Joan Martinez-Alier, Michiel Baud and Héctor Sejenovich2. Social Metabolism and Conflicts over Extractivism; Joan Martinez-Alier and Mariana Walter3. Indigenous Knowledge in Mexico: Between Environmentalism and Rural Development; Mina Kleiche-Dray and Roland WaastPART II: NEW POLITICS OF NATURAL RESOURCES4. The Government of Nature: Post-Neoliberal Environmental Governance in Bolivia and Ecuador; Pablo Andrade A.5. Changing Elites, Institutions and Environmental Governance; Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen6. Water-Energy-Mining and Sustainable Consumption: Views of South American Strategic Actors; Cristián Parker, Gloria Baigorrotegui and Fernando Estenssoro7. Overcoming Poverty through Sustainable Development; Héctor SejenovichPART III: NEW PROJECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE8. Forest Governance in Latin America: Strategies for Implementing REDD; Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Fabiano Toni and Cecilie Hirsh9. Rights, Pressures and Conservation in Forest Regions of Mexico; Leticia Merino10. Local Solutions for Environmental Justice; David Barkin and Blanca Lemus11. Community Consultations: Local Responses to Large-Scale Mining in Latin America; Mariana Walter and Leire UrkidiAfterword: From Sustainable Development to Environmental Governance; Eduardo Silva