Environmental Governance in Latin America
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 resourc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-50572-9 |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | XII, 338 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781137505729 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-137-50572-9 |
| Access: | Open Access |