Environmental Governance in Latin America [electronic resource] /
De Castro, Fabio.editor.
Hogenboom, Barbara.editor.
Baud, Michiel.editor.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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.
Political science.
Economic policy.
Sustainable development.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Environmental policy.
Environmental law.
Political Science.
Development Policy.
Sustainable Development.
Latin American Culture.
Environmental Politics.
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.
Also available in print form.

Open Access