Environmental Governance In Latin America
by Michiel Baud /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book is open access under a CC-BY license.
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.
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.
