Environmental Governance in Latin America (1st ed. 2016)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2016

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781137505729

Related ISBNs:

9781137505712

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Date of Addition:

04/09/21

Copyrighted By:

bio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom and Michiel Baud

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Michiel Baud

Edited by:

Barbara Hogenboom

Edited by:

Fabio De Castro