Land Use Handbook Of The Anthropocene In Latin America I

Author : Olaf Kaltmeier,María Fernanda López Sandoval,José Augusto Pádua,Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli
Publisher : Bielefeld University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 3837670112

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Land Use - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I by Olaf Kaltmeier,María Fernanda López Sandoval,José Augusto Pádua,Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli Pdf

Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonization, spatial appropriation, and the commodification of land. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on land use in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions touch upon numerous aspects, from the transformations of material to the social practices, their political and legal regulations as well as the imaginaries of virgin territories. Consequently, far from limiting themselves to a static cartography of land use, the contributors investigate the appropriations of borders and historic transformations in land use.

Author : Beatriz Bustos,Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro,Gustavo García-López,Felipe Milanez,Diana Ojeda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000869026

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Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment by Beatriz Bustos,Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro,Gustavo García-López,Felipe Milanez,Diana Ojeda Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region. It will help readers make connections between Latin American and other regions’ perspectives, experiences, and environmental concerns. Latin America has seen an acceleration of environmental degradation due to the expansion of resource extraction and urban areas. This Handbook addresses Latin America not only as an object of study, but also as a region with a long and profound history of critical thinking on these themes. Furthermore, the Handbook departs from most treatments on the topic by studying the environment as a social issue inextricably linked to politics, economy, and culture. The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for those wanting not only to understand the issues, but also to engage with ideas about environmental politics and social-ecological transformation. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics organized according to three areas: physical geography, ecology, and crucial environmental problems of the region. These are key theoretical and methodological issues used to understand Latin America’s ecosocial contexts, and institutional and grassroots practices related to more just and ecologically sustainable worlds. The Handbook will set a research agenda for the near future and provide comprehensive research on most subregions relative to environmental transformations, challenges, struggles and political processes. It stands as a fresh and much needed state of the art introduction for researchers, scholars, post-graduates and academic audiences on Latin American contributions to theorization, empirical research and environmental practices.

Author : John O. Browder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429713668

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Fragile Lands Of Latin America by John O. Browder Pdf

This book of selected research papers, originally presented at the "Symposium of Fragile Lands of Latin America—The Search for Sustainable Uses," presents some fresh evidence of the viability of a few "non-conventional" strategies for natural resource development and management.

Author : Olaf Kaltmeier,Antoine Acker,León Enrique Ávila Romero,Regina Horta Duarte
Publisher : Bielefeld University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 3837670120

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Biodiversity - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II by Olaf Kaltmeier,Antoine Acker,León Enrique Ávila Romero,Regina Horta Duarte Pdf

Enriches contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.

Author : Stubbs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197502679

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Oxford Handbook of Commodities History by Stubbs Pdf

"Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodities history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers continue to focus on particular commodities and regions, they often do so in partnership with others working on different areas and employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, placing commodities history at the forefront of local and global historical analysis. This Oxford Handbook features contributions from scholars involved in these developments across a range of countries and linguistic regions. They discuss the state of the art in their fields, draw on their own work, and signal lacunae for future research. Each of its 31 chapters focuses on an important thematic area within commodities history: key approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies. Taken together, the Oxford Handbook of Commodities History offers insight into the directions in which commodities history is heading, and the multiple ways in which it can contribute to a better understanding of the world"--

Author : Luisa E. Delgado,Víctor H. Marín
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030284527

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Social-ecological Systems of Latin America: Complexities and Challenges by Luisa E. Delgado,Víctor H. Marín Pdf

Human societies are influencing nature in such a way that their independent analysis is no longer suitable. Fortunately, social-ecological systems provide a conceptual framework for the interconnected analysis of societies and ecosystems. However, in the case of Latin America, the complexity of social-ecological processes undermined a much-needed compilation of theoretical concepts, methods and case studies. Increasing readers’ understanding of such systems using a postnormal approach, the book discusses current concepts and methods with examples of studies from eight countries. It is a useful resource for social actors, government decision makers and scholars.

Author : Damien Short,Corinne Lennox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136313868

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Handbook of Indigenous Peoples' Rights by Damien Short,Corinne Lennox Pdf

This handbook will be a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of indigenous peoples’ rights. Chapters by experts in the field will examine legal, philosophical, sociological and political issues, addressing a wide range of themes at the heart of debates on the rights of indigenous peoples. The book will address not only the major questions, such as ‘who are indigenous peoples? What is distinctive about their rights? How are their rights constructed and protected? What is the relationship between national indigenous rights regimes and international norms? but also themes such as culture, identity, genocide, globalization and development, rights institutionalization and the environment.

Author : Michael Cohen,Maria Carrizosa,Margarita Gutman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429647994

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Urban Policy in Latin America by Michael Cohen,Maria Carrizosa,Margarita Gutman Pdf

This book evaluates the impact of 20 years of urban policies in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. It argues that evaluating the fulfillment of past commitments is essential for framing and meeting the new commitments that were taken in Habitat III over the next 20 years. Taken as a whole, the book provides a critical assessment of the economic, social and environmental consequences of urban interventions during Habitat II. The country-level chapters have been written by recognized experts in urban issues, with first-hand knowledge of the Habitat process, and deep familiarity with the problems, statistics, actors and political contexts of their nations. The latter part of the volume considers wider topics such as the Habitat Commitment Index, the New Urban Agenda and the regional and global-scale lessons that can be extracted from this group of countries. Urban Policy in Latin America will be of interest to advanced students, researchers and policymakers across development economics, urban studies and Latin American studies.

Author : John O. Browder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Land use, Rural
ISBN : 0367012944

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Fragile Lands of Latin America by John O. Browder Pdf

This book of selected research papers, originally presented at the "Symposium of Fragile Lands of Latin America--The Search for Sustainable Uses," presents some fresh evidence of the viability of a few "non-conventional" strategies for natural resource development and management.

Author : Carlos Leite,Claudia Acosta,Fernanda Militelli,Guillermo Jajamovich,Mariana Wilderom,Nabil Bonduki,Nadia Somekh,Tereza Herling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030160114

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Social Urbanism in Latin America by Carlos Leite,Claudia Acosta,Fernanda Militelli,Guillermo Jajamovich,Mariana Wilderom,Nabil Bonduki,Nadia Somekh,Tereza Herling Pdf

This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities. The discussion that follows places special emphasis on public land policy and the innovative urban instruments developed in that region to promote social and territorial inclusion. Critical reflections throughout the pages of this book shed light into the local context of each case-study in order to understand their specific set of challenges and opportunities. Relevant lessons are extracted from the three cities here analyzed, the medium-scale city of Medellin, the large-scale city of Bogota, and the megacity of Sao Paulo, as well as from local innovative experiences in Argentina and Uruguay. These cities underwent promising transformation processes over two decades, applying planning and financing instruments of land policy which have produced significant shifts in the urban development paradigm in the region. The quest for social inclusion has emerged as the common denominator in these cities, awakening growing interest across several fields of urban studies, from public policies and city management to urban law, city financing, urban development, and innovative community participation processes. The book brings implications on urban land policy for transition cities in the Global South. The question of social inclusion in Global South cities is however far from being solved; the analysis presented in this book shows advances and hope, besides a long path still ahead, which can only be faced through a continuous and challenging incremental process. May this book be an incremental step.

Author : Jens Andermann,Gabriel Giorgi,Victoria Saramago
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110775969

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Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics by Jens Andermann,Gabriel Giorgi,Victoria Saramago Pdf

The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies, and infrastructure studies, among others. This volume both traces these genealogies and maps out key positions in this increasingly central field of Latin Americanism, at the same time as they relate it to the environmental humanities at large. By showing how artistic and literary productions illuminate critical zones of environmental thought, articulating urgent social and material issues with cultural archives, historical approaches and conceptual interventions, this volume offers cutting-edge critical tools for approaching literature and the arts from new angles that call into question the nature/culture boundary.

Author : Santiago López
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031226809

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Socio-Environmental Research in Latin America by Santiago López Pdf

This contributed volume presents relevant examples of socio-environmental research that highlight the challenges and opportunities of using geotechnologies in interdisciplinary settings across the vast, culturally, and environmentally mega-diverse region known as Latin America. While remote sensing has been mostly used for mapping and monitoring physical features, geographic information systems open up opportunities for the integration of socio-economic and environmental data collected through individual and community-based surveys, in-situ measurements, and other participatory research techniques to offer additional analytically grounded power when evaluating socio-environmental processes that shape Latin American landscapes. The topics addressed in this book include deforestation and land degradation, borderlands dynamics, agriculture and agroecological systems, environmental conservation and development, public health, tourism, environmental justice, archeology, volunteered geography and urban planning, among others. The book is intended for academics, graduate and undergraduate classrooms, and general audiences with interest in Latin America and the socio-environmental issues that threaten the sustainability of the region and local communities. The book will also appeal to practitioners, managers, and policy makers interested in the application of geo-technologies and field-based research to address complex socio-environmental problems in the Global South.

Author : United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015031725164

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Urban Land Policies and Land-use Control Measures: Latin America by United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs Pdf

Author : E. B. Zoomers,Gemma van der Haar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Land reform
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110365066

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Current Land Policy in Latin America by E. B. Zoomers,Gemma van der Haar Pdf

Author : Sergio J. Rey,Rachel S. Franklin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781789903942

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Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences by Sergio J. Rey,Rachel S. Franklin Pdf

Providing an authoritative assessment of the current landscape of spatial analysis in the social sciences, this cutting-edge Handbook covers the full range of standard and emerging methods across the social science domain areas in which these methods are typically applied. Accessible and comprehensive, it expertly answers the key questions regarding the dynamic intersection of spatial analysis and the social sciences.