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This book will be an important aid for both scholars and students that would like to delve into the study of environmental crisis in Latin America. (Gisela Heffes, Rice University) Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America is a substantial and exceptionally thought-provoking collection of essays about Latin America's.
Written by leading experts, this book brings together Latin American research on global environmental change. They cover a range of topics such as climate change, water, forest and biodiversity conservation connected with science policies, public opinion, priorities of international funds, and international politics of Latin American countries.
Environmental policy in Latin America has been evolving to include the region’s diversity and better cope with the different and more complex problems faced.
Most countries are highly urbanized – Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay exceed 90% of urban population – and almost all countries are above the world average of 52%.
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.
Environmental justice concerns form an important part of popular environmental movements in many countries. and Justice (CHEJ). In contrast, formal environmental networks in most Latin American countries are nascent at best, and philanthropic and government support is much scarcer.
Latin American environmental groups are less able to advance agendas on their own terms and tend to rely more on denunciation and defense (Kelly ). Environmental justice in Latin America has become a unifying banner of reflection and mobilization.
It has drawn together the experience of struggle of diverse individuals, communities, and entities including grassroots movements, traditional populations (indigenous), small farmers and landless workers, environmentalists, and scientists.
For the 45 million indigenous people of Latin America, their link with the environment goes beyond its potential use as a resource to a spiritual and cultural connection.
Seeing a river dying because of drought or pollution is like losing a family member. This is how Ketty Marcelo, from the Yanesha-Asáninka people, in the central jungle of the Peruvian Amazon, puts it. She has seen the. In addition, many Latin American countries allow for class action litigation, either de jure or de facto, for damages to the environment.
While class actions can “expand fairness” in a civil justice system, they can also greatly magnify the time, effort and cost required to remedy the damages and compensate people harmed by a company’s.
This book narrates the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the.
Recent scholarship has overturned many of our egocentric assumptions about humanity's preeminent role in history. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that former American civilizations were more powerful than previously thought, and that current civilizations are potentially as : $ The essays analyze a representative set of environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.
They consider problems at international, regional, national, and local levels and examine. Walter LaFeber’s Inevitable Revolutions looks at the US/Latin-American relationship from a slightly different perspective.
It complements Schoultz’s book well because it focuses, very specifically, on the countries of Central America.
It covers a shorter timeframe, picking up when the United States first intervened militarily in Central America at the turn of the 20th century. The book Green Guerrillas () “profiles the people on the frontline” of the environmental activism in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as “indigenous groups and forest settlers to fishing communities, peasant farmers, flower workers, shanty-town activists,” and many more.
2. Nations adopt the first regional treaty on environmental issues. Over the course of the year, 16 nations have signed the Escazú Agreement. Not only is it the first treaty on environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean, it is also the first in the world to include provisions on human rights defenders in environmental matters.
Book description: Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate.
Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of. The debate on the socioenvironmental challenges faced by Latin America has a long history.
This history is crucial to understanding Latin American perspectives on environmental governance and. Latin America In Comparative Perspective book.
New Approaches To Methods And Analysis. By Peter H Smith. Edition 1st Edition. First Published eBook Published 8 October Pub. location New York. Imprint Routledge. Subjects Politics & International Relations.
Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. My library. Climate change is dramatically altering the planet and affecting human livelihoods in ways that elicit religious response.
Building upon earlier CLALS work focused on forms of religious engagement with environmental conflict in Latin America, this project deepens understanding of the relationship between religion and the effects of climate change across multiple regions of the world.
The International Journal of Latin American Religions (JLAR) invites researchers to submit manuscripts to a thematic session focused on religious and spiritual practices in daily life, in the sense of individual resignifications or innovative elaborations of religious traditions beyond institutional boundaries.
The journal welcomes both theoretical and empirical contributions to the discussion. Neoliberal policies would continue to dominate American and British politics until the financial crisis.
Following British and American reform, neoliberal policies were exported abroad, with countries in Latin America, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and even communist China implementing.
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Written by scholars based in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, and Mexico, in addition to Canada and the United States, the essays in this volume reflect an expand-ing network of people and institutions studying the environmental histories of Latin America and the Caribbean.
4 KENT, Robert B. Latin America: Region and People, 2nd ed., N.Y., Guilford Press, [Bond University E-Book] KNIGHT, W. Andy Re-Mapping the America: Trends in Region-Making, Farnham, Ashgate Publishing, [E-publication, access via Bond Library] McPHERSON, Alan A Short History of U.S.
Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean, Malden MA, Wiley Blackwell, Introduction. The study of environmental policy and politics has undergone a rapid and complex development. As elsewhere, the view that in Latin America and the Caribbean there was neither political action nor policy action on environmental affairs before the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm, has shifted to a more nuanced understanding of the evolution of.
With its rhetoric of "the 99%" (the people) against "the 1%" (the elite), the international Occupy movement was an example of a populist social movement Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasise the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite".
The term developed in the 19th century and has been applied to various politicians, parties, and. Latin America could benefit from any cut in labor costs that might result from creating more flexible labor contracts.
However, it will be hard to convince workers to accept those sorts of conditions. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.
Contents. Introduction: props and scenery 1. An old world before it was 'new' 2. Nature's conquests 3. The colonial balance. international financial institutions should never be used to support the interests of creditor countries. Keywords: Debt crisis, default, debt restructuring, lost decade, macroeconomic policies, Latin America.
The debt crisis of the s is the most traumatic economic event in Latin America’s economic history.This book addresses the psychosocial causes, consequences, and underpinnings of intra-regional migration in Latin America.
War, political instability, and disparities in wealth and opportunity have long driven migration within Latin America, and this process shows no sign of slowing.Publisher of scholarly and trade books, focusing on the humanities, social science, and fiction.