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Environmental Governance in Latin America

Book Title: 
Environmental Governance in Latin America
Volume, number, page: 
XII, 338 p.
Year of Publication: 
2015
Author(s): 
MARTINEZ-AILIER Joan
SEJENOVICH Héctor
WALTER Mariana
KLEICHE-DRAY Mina
WAAST Roland
ANDRADE A. Pablo
BULL Benedicte
AGUILAR-STOEN Mariel
PARKER Cristian
BAIGORROTEGUI Gloria
ESTENSORO Fernando
TONI Fabiano
HIRSCH Cecilie
MERINO Leticia
BARKIN David
LEMUS Blanca
URKIDI Leire
Editor(s): 
CASTRO Fabio de
HOGENBOOM Barbara
BAUD Michiel
Organization Name: 
Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: 
Palgrave Macmillan
City: 
Basingstoke
Country of Publication: 
United Kingdom
ISBN or ISSN: 
978-1-137-57408-4
Considered Countries: 
Mexico
Colombia
Brazil
Argentina
Ecuador
Chile
Venezuela
Haití
Bolivia
Honduras
Nicaragua
Peru
El Salvador
Guyana
Costa Rica
Category: 
Books
Theme: 
Country - LAC
Country - Country
Government
Parliaments
Business
Civil Society
Keyword(s): 
Society
Environment
Governance
Latin America
Caribbean
Conflict
Indigenous People
Development Models
Sustainable Development
International politics
Political Science
Development
Development Co-operation
Civil Society
Social Movements
Biodiversity
Abstract: 
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.