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Environmental governance in Latin America

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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Call Number
333.7098 ENV e
Publisher
London : Palgrave Macmillan.,
Collation
xii, 338p. : ill.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781137505729
Classification
333.7098
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Subject(s)
Science
Sustainable development
Environmental policy
Latin America
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Statement of Responsibility
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