Grassroots struggles for sustainability in Central America
By: Lynn R. Horton.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780870818721
Subjects: Sustainable development -- Central America -- Citizen participation -- Case studies; Sustainable development -- Costa Rica -- Osa Peninsula -- Citizen participation; Sustainable development -- Nicaragua -- Miraflores (Chinandegas) -- Citizen participation; Sustainable development -- Panama -- Ipetí -- Citizen participation; Rural development -- Central America -- Case studies; Cuna Indians -- Panama -- Ipetí -- Economic conditions
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contested visions of sustainability; title: Poverty and forests : development and (dis)empowerment in Central America; title: All the land belongs to the foreigners : ecotourism and sustainability; title: Nature that gives them life : grassroots sustainability on the Osa Peninsula; title: Right behind him are the campesinos with axes : developing the Estero Real; title: He has been taught not to be afraid : grassroots sustainability in Miraflores; title: Before, there were only Kuna : the struggle for the comarca; title: There are no poor people here : grassroots sustainability in Ipetí; title: Bringing the case studies together; title: Conclusion.