Overview
- A programmatic analysis and overview of current Environmental Governance in Latin America
- Culmination of a longterm research collaboration between the contributing authors, funded by the European Union
- Critically engages with cutting edge work on key topics such as environmental justice or political ecology
- Unique regional focus on Latin America makes the book highly topical
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America
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New Politics of Natural Resources
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Front Matter
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New Projects of Environmental Governance
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Afterword: From Sustainable Development to Environmental Governance
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Environmental governance
- environmental politics
- environmental policies
- environmental conflicts
- environmental justice
- environmental citizenship
- ecological economics
- political ecology
- sustainable development
- protected areas
- climate change
- Latin America
- water
- energy
- mining
- conservation
- conflict
- ecology
- environment
- European Union (EU)
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fabio de Castro is Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies and Brazilian Studies at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include local governance of natural resources, protected areas, agrarian transformations, and biofuel expansion in Latin America.
Barbara Hogenboom is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at CEDLA. Her research interests include Latin American policies and politics of mineral extraction and natural resource use, and the influence of China's rise on the region.
Michiel Baud is Director of CEDLA. His research interests includes indigenista ideologies and their influence on present-day academic interpretations of the Andes, the role of ethnic movements in Latin American politics, the construction of collective memories in present-day Latin America and the relationship between ethnic relations and environmental ideas in 19th and 20th century Latin America.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Governance in Latin America
Editors: Fábio Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-50572-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50571-2Published: 06 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57408-4Published: 06 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50572-9Published: 24 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 338
Topics: Political Science, Development Policy, Sustainable Development, Latin American Culture, Environmental Politics, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice