Environmental Governance in Latin America
Synopsis
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 Springer
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137505736
- Publisher:
- Palgrave macmillan
- Date of Addition:
- 2019-11-22T01:48:17Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.