Environmental Governance in Latin America  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Fabio De Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud. 
 - 1st ed. 2016. 
 - XII, 338 p.  online resource. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781137505729 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-1-137-50572-9  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political science.<br/>Economic policy.<br/>Sustainable development.<br/>Ethnology—Latin America.<br/>Environmental policy.<br/>Environmental law.<br/>Political Science.<br/>Development Policy.<br/>Sustainable Development.<br/>Latin American Culture.<br/>Environmental Politics.<br/>Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JA1-92 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320