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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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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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.