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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.

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Author:   Fabio De Castro ,  Barbara Hogenboom ,  Michiel Baud
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.425kg
ISBN:  

9781137574084

ISBN 10:   1137574089
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   06 January 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America; Fabio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom and Michiel Baud PART I: SETTING THE STAGE 1. Origins and Perspectives of Latin American Environmentalism; Joan Martinez-Alier, Michiel Baud and Héctor Sejenovich 2. Social Metabolism and Conflicts over Extractivism; Joan Martinez-Alier and Mariana Walter 3. Indigenous Knowledge in Mexico: Between Environmentalism and Rural Development; Mina Kleiche-Dray and Roland Waast PART II: NEW POLITICS OF NATURAL RESOURCES 4. The Government of Nature: Post-Neoliberal Environmental Governance in Bolivia and Ecuador; Pablo Andrade A. 5. Changing Elites, Institutions and Environmental Governance; Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen 6. Water-Energy-Mining and Sustainable Consumption: Views of South American Strategic Actors; Cristián Parker, Gloria Baigorrotegui and Fernando Estenssoro 7. Overcoming Poverty through Sustainable Development; Héctor Sejenovich PART III: NEW PROJECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE 8. Forest Governance in Latin America: Strategies for Implementing REDD; Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Fabiano Toni and Cecilie Hirsh 9. Rights, Pressures and Conservation in Forest Regions of Mexico; Leticia Merino 10. Local Solutions for Environmental Justice; David Barkin and Blanca Lemus 11. Community Consultations: Local Responses to Large-Scale Mining in Latin America; Mariana Walter and Leire Urkidi Afterword: From Sustainable Development to Environmental Governance; Eduardo Silva

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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.

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