The Distributive Politics Of Environmental Protection In Latin America And The Caribbean

Author : Isabella Alcañiz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009263404
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Isabella Alcañiz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean expands as conflicts stemming from the deterioration of the natural world increase. Yet this scholarship has not generated a broad research agenda similar to the ones that emerged around other key political phenomena. This Element seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrate the existing, disparate literatures. Drawing from distributive politics, this Element asks who benefits from the appropriation and pollution of the environment, who pays the costs of climate change and environmental degradation, and who gains from the allocation of state protections.

Author : Aldemaro Romero
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402037740
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Aldemaro Romero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of readings that explore environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean using natural science and social science methods. These papers demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and solve environmental problems. The essays are organized into five parts: conservation challenges; national policies, local communities, and rural development; market mechanisms for protecting public goods; public participation and environmental justice; and the effects of development policies on the environment.

Author : Allen Blackman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317906861
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Allen Blackman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse. It contains about half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, nearly one-fifth of its coastal habitats, and some of its most productive agricultural and marine areas. But agriculture, fishing and other human activities linked to rapid population and economic growth increasingly threaten that biodiversity. Moreover, poverty, weak regulatory capacity, and limited political will hamper conservation. Given this dilemma, it is critically important to design conservation strategies on the basis of the best available information about both biodiversity and the track records of the various policies that have been used to protect it. This rigorously researched book has three key aims. It describes the status of biodiversity in LAC, the main threats to this biodiversity, and the drivers of these threats. It identifies the main policies being used to conserve biodiversity and assesses their effectiveness and potential for further implementation. It proposes five specific lines of practical action for conserving LAC biodiversity, based on: green agriculture; strengthening terrestrial protected areas and co-management; improving environmental governance; strengthening coastal and marine resource management; and improving biodiversity data and policy evaluation.

Author : Gordon J Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429720637
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Environmental Policy In International Perspective written by Gordon J Macdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the stance that environmental policy has progressed from rhetoric to substance in Latin America, the editors’ proceed through a series of papers to show why, what difference it makes, and how it compares to other parts of the world. In doing so, the book touches on domestic and international factors including political institutions, international development institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and transboundary cooperation. Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective is one in a series of books that take a look at Latin America in Global Perspective. Previous titles have addressed politics, gender, regional integration, institutional design, and civil/military relations.

Author : Gavin O'Toole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781380239
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Gavin O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green issues are rising rapidly up the agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean as governments struggle to reconcile the demands of globalization with the quest for equitable and sustainable growth. This second volume of Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean reveals how the region is becoming a laboratory of change - and a source of inspiration in global affairs - as states, multilateral agencies and the private sector seek sustainable solutions to its pressing problems. This volume explains the roles institutions, policies and political actors play in green policymaking and builds on the introduction to the historical, political and economic context in which they have evolved provided in Volume I. It examines how democratization in the 1980s gave new space to environmental and indigenous activists, and surveys the ideas inspiring them to forge a new kind of politics. As institutional change has become a defining feature of political development throughout this region, new environmental ministries and agencies have established new standards of regulation and enforcement. Policymakers are advancing innovative ways to tackle complex environmental problems and constitutions, laws and treaties are enshrining new green rights that increasingly assertive courts are upholding. Together, both volumes of Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean provide the framework for a modular course on this essential topic, with each chapter structured to be the basis of a single teaching unit. Using tables, boxes and maps to support the student, the two volumes offer an accessible way of understanding the background and context of environmental politics in the region as well as theoretical debates and key developments.

Author : Romero Aldemaro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789048104642
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Romero Aldemaro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of readings that explore environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean using natural science and social science methods. These papers demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and solve environmental problems. The essays are organized into five parts: conservation challenges; national policies, local communities, and rural development; market mechanisms for protecting public goods; public participation and environmental justice; and the effects of development policies on the environment.

Author : Gavin O'Toole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781380222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Gavin O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers from a broad range of disciplines to the environmental history, politics and economics of Latin America and the Caribbean and the principal issues confronting the natural world in this region, from deforestation, land degradation, biodiversity loss and water shortages to climate change. It sketches the environmental history of one of the world's most ecologically diverse regions and the impact of human development on the landscape since pre-Columbian times. It surveys the ideas that have shaped attitudes to the natural environment and resources since Conquest and those that are now driving the creation of green parties and organizations as they forge a new kind of politics in the Americas. The book provides an overview of the institutions, policies and political actors that are shaping the environmental policymaking and contributing to the growing profile of Latin America and the Caribbean in global affairs. It examines the impact of changing patterns of economic development on the environment and the debates that are informing struggles over resources. The green agenda is growing in importance as governments in this rapidly emerging region struggle to reconcile the demands of unremitting globalization with the quest for sustainable development and as the consequences of climate change pose ever more complex problems for society. 'Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean' demonstrates how this region has become a laboratory for change - and a source of inspiration - for states, multilateral agencies and the private sector as they seek sustainable solutions to our planet's most pressing problems. -- Publisher's description.

Author : David V. Carruthers
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262033720
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Justice in Latin America written by David V. Carruthers and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and activists investigate the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that illustrate the connections between popular environmental mobilization and social justice in the region.

Author : David Goodman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment and Development in Latin America written by David Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how political, social, and economic factors have turned one of the richest continents in terms of natural resources into one of the poorest environments, and moves beyond models of conventional development to point toward a new political economy for Latin America, centered on sustainable environmental management. Distributed in the US and Canada by St. Martin's. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Richard M. Huber
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Market-based Instruments for Environmental Policymaking in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Richard M. Huber and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication investigates the use of market-based instruments in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) context. The investigation covers a sample of eleven countries in the region and a cross-section of environmental issues in an urban setting.