Ecuador's environmental revolutions
Subtitle: ecoimperialists, ecodependents, and ecoresisters
By: Tammy L. Lewis
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780262034296; 9780262528771
Subjects: Environmentalism; History; Environmental policy; Sustainable development
Description: An account of the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins, neoliberal boom, neoliberal bust, and citizens' revolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Key players and conflicting goals in the development trajectory; title: The Ecuadorian context; title: Ideal types of environmentalism; title: Origins, 1978 to 1987: ambientalistas and ecologistas emerge; title: Neoliberal boom, 1987 to 2000: the rise of ecodependence; title: Organizational bust, 2000 to 2006: opportunities for ecoresisters and ecoalternatives; title: Citizens revolution, 2006 to 2015: the rise of the paradoxical state; title: Hypotheses from Ecuador.