Environmental Governance in Latin America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Fabio De Castro • Barbara Hogenboom • Michiel Baud
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	338
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-50571-2
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > Local government policies Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > Environment law Promotions
LSN:	1-137-50571-0
Barcode:	9781137505712

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