Environmental Governance in Latin America

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 resourc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: de Castro, Fábio (Editor), De Castro, Fabio. editor (editor), Hogenboom, Barbara. editor, Baud, Michiel. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2016
London : 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiiI, 338 pages) : b illustrations
Also available in print form
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781137505729