Environmental Governance in Latin America [electronic resource] / edited by Fábio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: XII, 338 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781137505729
- Political science
- Ethnology -- Latin America
- Environmental law
- Environmental policy
- Sustainable development
- Economic policy
- Political Science and International Relations
- Political Science
- Development Policy
- Sustainable Development
- Latin American Culture
- Environmental Politics
- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
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- JA1-92
Open Access
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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