Environmental Governance in Latin America

Fabio De Castro (Curatore)

Barbara Hogenboom (Curatore)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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.

• Curatore: Fabio De Castro, Barbara Hogenboom
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 338 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• EAN: 9781137574084

Testo in English