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Environmental Governance in Latin America
Fabio de Castro (Ed.)
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Description for Environmental Governance in Latin America
Paperback. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.The contributors investigate a broad range of emerging socio-environmental challenges faced by contemporary Latin America. By using environmental governance as an overarching analytical concept, they cross territorial, sectorial, and institutional boundaries to address the nature/society nexus. Editor(s): De Castro, Fabio; Hogenboom, Barbara; Baud, Michiel. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 black & white tables, 4 charts, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPRB; LNKJ; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 454.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
447g
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137574084
SKU
V9781137574084
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About Fabio de Castro (Ed.)
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. ... Read more
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