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Environment and Development

Challenges, Policies and Practices

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Editors:
  1. Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

    1. School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

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  • A comprehensive overview of emerging challenges facing different social groups, policy-makers and the international community related to economic growth, social development and environmental change, social inclusion and regional development
  • Discusses different aspects of the environment-development controversies, with a focus on the Amazon region, including resource extraction, violence against peasants and indigenous peoples, agricultural frontiers, water management, land-based disputes and anthropogenic climate change
  • Contributing authors explore policy recommendations and discuss effective practical tools for determining the values different people hold for ecosystem services and territorial resources

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Environmental Roots of Development Problems

      • Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
      Pages 3-34

  3. Understanding the Environment and Development Nexus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Healthy Cities, Diseasogenic Cities and the Global South

      • Louis Rice
      Pages 37-65

    3. Regenerating the Socio-Ecological Quality of Urban Streams: The Potential of a Social Learning Approach

      • Daniele Tubino P. de Souza, Edson Grandisoli, Pedro Roberto Jacobi, Arjen E. J. Wals
      Pages 67-98

    4. A Systems Analysis Approach to Addressing Contemporary Water Challenges: Management Improvements in Brazil and Beyond

      • Nazli Koseoglu
      Pages 99-131

    5. Doce River Large-Scale Environmental Catastrophe: Decision and Policy-Making Outcomes

      • Ana T. Lima, Felipe A. Bastos, Fernando Jakes Teubner Junior, Renato Rodrigues Neto, Helena I. Gomes, Gilberto F. Barroso
      Pages 133-173

    6. What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up? The Political Dimensions of Climate Change in Brazil, China and Mozambique

      • Leila da Costa Ferreira, Fabiana Barbi, Mariana D. Barbieri
      Pages 175-199

    7. Colombia’s Developmental and Socioecological Trajectory and the Mounting Risks Associated with the 2016 Havana Accord

      • Rafael R. Ioris, Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
      Pages 201-223

    8. Cerca del Rio y Lejos del Agua: Water, Autonomy, and Hope in the Ecuadorian Andes

      • Geoff Goodwin
      Pages 225-252

    9. ‘The Best-Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’: Transformative Agency Towards Ecosocialism

      • Elisabeth Cremona, Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
      Pages 253-286

  4. The Lived Environment and Development of the Amazon Region

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287
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    2. The Indigenous Politics of Belonging: Opposing Neo-liberal Extractivism with Ethical Cosmologies

      • Stefano Varese
      Pages 289-304

    3. Voiceless Development, Toxic Injustice, Criminal Resistance: A Study of Peruvian Natural Resource Extraction Through the Political Ecology of Voice

      • Adrian Gonzalez
      Pages 305-335

    4. Ethnogenesis and Environmentalism in Contemporary Brazilian Amazonia: A Study in Comparative Frontier History

      • Paul E. Little
      Pages 337-361

    5. Brazilian National Integration Policies and the Amazon: Discourses of Modernisation Between the Past and the Present

      • Vitale Joanoni Neto, Regina Beatriz Guimarães Neto
      Pages 363-385

    6. Unintended Consequences of ‘Development’ in the Amazon: Commercial Aquaculture and Malaria in Mâncio Lima, Brazil

      • Igor Cavallini Johansen, Marcelo Urbano Ferreira
      Pages 387-410

    7. Political Economy of Amazon Development and Hydropower Construction

      • Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
      Pages 411-436

    8. Water Governance and the Hydrosocial Territory of the Teles Pires River Basin in the Brazilian Amazon

      • Daniela Maimoni Figueiredo, Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
      Pages 437-467
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About this book

This book provides a comprehensive overview of emerging challenges facing different social groups, policy-makers and the international community related to economic growth, social development and environmental change, social inclusion and regional development. The book undertakes a critical assessment of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory approaches and impacts of social and economic policies whilst widening the discussion on the interface between the expansion of the socio-environmental demands, equity and justice. These are crucial challenges, of great importance today and of equal relevance to the Global North and South. 


The book explores one of the main contradictions of development, the simplification of assessments and narrow consideration of alternatives. Taking this dilemma as its departure point, it goes on to examine the justification, trends and limitations of Western-based development and possible alternatives to fundamentally modify the basis and the rationale of the development process. It considers theoretical and lived experiences of development, paying attention to  multiple scales, local realities and economic frontiers. Contributing authors explore policy recommendations and discuss effective practical tools for determining the values different people hold for ecosystem services and territorial resources. They cover the monitoring of change in the provision of ecosystem services that might increase the well-being of vulnerable groups as well as strategies to promote innovation and integrated, equitable and sustainable development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

About the editor

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is Reader at Cardiff University, UK. Much of his current research is related to social and environmental justice, the multiple obstacles faced by marginalised groups and creative reactions at different geographical scales. The work is intended to have both academic and practical relevance and is focused on socionatural processes, on the political economy of development and environmental regulation, and on governance and politics

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environment and Development

  • Book Subtitle: Challenges, Policies and Practices

  • Editors: Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55416-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55415-6Published: 05 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55418-7Published: 06 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55416-3Published: 04 January 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 514

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Geography, general, Environmental Geography, Environment, general, Development Studies

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