Environmental Governance in Latin America

De Castro, Fabio; Hogenboom, Barbara; Baud, Michiel

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-01-06

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781137574084

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-50572-9

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 338.0