Routledge Handbook Of Latin America And The Environment

Author : Beatriz Bustos,Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro,Gustavo García-López,Felipe Milanez,Diana Ojeda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Jorge I Dominguez,Ana Covarrubias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317621843

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Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World by Jorge I Dominguez,Ana Covarrubias Pdf

The Handbook of Latin America in the World explains how the Latin American countries have both reacted and contributed to changing international dynamics over the last 30 years. It provides a comprehensive picture of Latin America’s global engagement by looking at specific processes and issues that link governments and other actors, social and economic, within the region and beyond. Leading scholars offer an up-to-date state of the field, theoretically and empirically, thus avoiding a narrow descriptive approach. The Handbook includes a section on theoretical approaches that analyze Latin America’s place in the international political and economic system and its foreign policy making. Other sections focus on the main countries, actors, and issues in Latin America’s international relations. In so doing, the book sheds light on the complexity of the international relations of selected countries, and on their efforts to act multilaterally. The Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World is a must-have reference for academics, researchers, and students in the fields of Latin American politics, international relations, and area specialists of all regions of the world.

Author : David R. Mares,Arie M. Kacowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317965084

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Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security by David R. Mares,Arie M. Kacowicz Pdf

This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account that the study of Latin America’s comparative and international politics has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War, the return of democracy and the re-legitimization and re-armament of the military against the background of low-level uses of force short of war. Latin America’s security issues have become an important topic in international relations and Latin American studies. This Handbook sets a rigorous agenda for future research and is organised into five key parts: • The Evolution of Security in Latin America • Theoretical Approaches to Security in Latin America • Different 'Securities' • Contemporary Regional Security Challenges • Latin America and Contemporary International Security Challenges With a focus on contemporary challenges and the failures of regional institutions to eliminate the threat of the use of force among Latin Americans, this Handbook will be of great interest to students of Latin American politics, security studies, war and conflict studies and International Relations in general.

Author : Julie Cupples,Marcela Palomino-Schalscha,Manuel Prieto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351669689

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The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development by Julie Cupples,Marcela Palomino-Schalscha,Manuel Prieto Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development seeks to engage with comprehensive, contemporary, and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development. The volume draws on contributions from across the humanities and social sciences and, unlike earlier volumes of this kind, explicitly highlights the disruptions to the field being brought by a range of anti-capitalist, decolonial, feminist, and ontological intellectual contributions. The chapters consider in depth the harms and suffering caused by various oppressive forces, as well as the creative and often revolutionary ways in which ordinary Latin Americans resist, fight back, and work to construct development defined broadly as the struggle for a better and more dignified life. The book covers many key themes including development policy and practice; neoliberalism and its aftermath; the role played by social movements in cities and rural areas; the politics of water, oil, and other environmental resources; indigenous and Afro-descendant rights; and the struggles for gender equality. With contributions from authors working in Latin America, the US and Canada, Europe, and New Zealand at a range of universities and other organizations, the handbook is an invaluable resource for students and teachers in development studies, Latin American studies, cultural studies, human geography, anthropology, sociology, political science, and economics, as well as for activists and development practitioners.

Author : Julie Cupples,M. Prieto,Marcela Palomino-Schalscha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1351669672

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The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development/Edited by Julie Cupples, Manuel Prieto and Marcela Palomino-Schalscha by Julie Cupples,M. Prieto,Marcela Palomino-Schalscha Pdf

Author : Rhys Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317797623

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Industry and Environment in Latin America by Rhys Jenkins Pdf

The impact of globalisation on the environment is a much debated issue, reflected in the growing literature on the effects of trade liberalization, the activities of transnational corporations and international finance. Using case-studies from Latin America, this book sets out these debates and presents new empirical evidence on key questions.

Author : Éloi Laurent,Klara Zwickl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000463002

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The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment by Éloi Laurent,Klara Zwickl Pdf

Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective. This collective volume sheds new light on the effect of economic and power inequality on environmental dynamics and, conversely, on the economic and social impact of environmental dynamics. The chapters gathered in this handbook make four original contributions to the field of political economy of the environment. First, they revisit essential concepts and methods of environmental economics in the light of their political economy. Second, they introduce readers to recent theoretical and empirical advances in key issues of political economy of the environment with a special focus on the relationship between inequality and environmental degradation, a nexus that has dramatically come into focus with the COVID crisis. Third, the authors of this handbook open the field to its critical global and regional dimensions: global issues, such as the environmental justice movement and inequality and climate change as well as regional issues such as agriculture systems, air pollution, natural resources appropriation and urban sustainability. Fourth and finally, the work shows how novel analysis can translate into new forms of public policy that require institutional reform and new policy tools. Ecosystems preservation, international climate negotiations and climate mitigation policies all have a strong distributional dimension that chapters point to. Pressing environmental policy such as carbon pricing and low-carbon and energy transitions entail numerous social issues that also need to be accounted for with new analytical and technological tools. This handbook will be an invaluable reference, research and teaching tool for anyone interested in political economy approaches to environmental issues and ecological crises.

Author : Peter Kingstone,Deborah J. Yashar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135280291

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Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics by Peter Kingstone,Deborah J. Yashar Pdf

Latin America has been one of the critical areas in the study of comparative politics. The region’s experiments with installing and deepening democracy and promoting alternative modes of economic development have generated intriguing and enduring empirical puzzles. In turn, Latin America’s challenges continue to spawn original and vital work on central questions in comparative politics: about the origins of democracy; about the relationship between state and society; about the nature of citizenship; about the balance between state and market. The richness and diversity of the study of Latin American politics makes it hard to stay abreast of the developments in the many sub-literatures of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics offers an intellectually rigorous overview of the state of the field and a thoughtful guide to the direction of future scholarship. Kingstone and Yashar bring together the leading figures in the study of Latin America to present extensive empirical coverage, new original research, and a cutting-edge examination of the central areas of inquiry in the region.

Author : David B. Sachsman,JoAnn Myer Valenti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351068383

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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism by David B. Sachsman,JoAnn Myer Valenti Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism provides a thorough understanding of environmental journalism around the world. An increasing number of media platforms – from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks – are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number of full-time newspaper reporters, environmental journalists remain key to bringing stories to light across the globe. With contributions from around the world broken down into five key regions – the United States of America, Europe and Russia, Asia and Australia, Africa and the Middle East, and South America – this book provides support for today’s environment reporters, the providers of essential news in the 21st century. As a scholarly and journalistic work written by academics and the environmental reporters themselves, this volume is an essential text for students and scholars of environmental communication, journalism, and global environmental issues more generally, as well as professionals working in this vital area.

Author : Jan Bebbington,Carlos Larrinaga,Brendan O'Dwyer,Ian Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429620959

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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Accounting by Jan Bebbington,Carlos Larrinaga,Brendan O'Dwyer,Ian Thomson Pdf

This handbook showcases the broad spectrum of diverse approaches to environmental accounting which have developed during the last 30 years across the globe. The volume covers a range of physical issues such as water, carbon and biodiversity, as well as specific accounting matters such as management control, finance and audit. Moreover, seven chapters present environmental accounting issues that arise in the regions of Africa, Asia, Europe, MENA, North America, the Pacific and South America. The handbook also highlights future challenges in all the topic areas addressed as well as introducing new topics, such as links between environmental accounting and the circular economy, and the issues associated with animal rights. Edited by leading scholars in the area and with key contributions from across the discipline, and covering a diverse range of perspectives and locations, the volume is divided into five key parts: • Part 1: Framing the issues • Part 2: Financial accounting and reporting • Part 3: Management accounting • Part 4: Global and local perspectives • Part 5: Thematic topics in environmental accounting This handbook will act as a significant publication in drawing together the history of the field and important reference points in its future development, and will serve as a vital resource for students and scholars of environmental accounting and environmental economics.

Author : Gavin O'Toole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315529394

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Environmental Security in Latin America by Gavin O'Toole Pdf

This book examines security in Latin America through an environmental lens, at a time when this region faces a broad and growing spectrum of threats. The book considers the backdrop against which security debates about Latin America have been conducted; the extent to which scholarship has been dominated by traditional US strategic concerns; and how, in the changing context at the end of the Cold War, some policymakers within Latin America itself at both national and regional levels began to reposition security. It argues that traditional security scholarship focusing on military defence and strategic affairs in this region is hard to explain and out of date, and offers reasons why a new focus on environmental threats within a broader human security perspective has much to offer this field. Such a focus is justified by the scale of the challenges that environmental degradation is posing in Latin America, and the very real impact of climate change there. The book considers how the various theoretical possibilities of the term ‘environmental security’ all have some potential application to this region, where the natural environment is rapidly being securitized by military forces on behalf of their states. Finally, it proposes that a fruitful approach to Latin America might be one where human and environmental security have parity. This book will be of interest to students of environmental security, Latin American security, human geography and IR in general.

Author : Ryan Holifield,Jayajit Chakraborty,Gordon P. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Environmental justice
ISBN : 1138932825

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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice by Ryan Holifield,Jayajit Chakraborty,Gordon P. Walker Pdf

43 The dawn of environmental justice?: the record of left and socialist governance in Central and South America -- 44 Urban environmental (in)justice in Latin America: the case of Chile -- 45 Environmental justice in Nigeria: divergent tales, paradoxes and future prospects -- 46 Sub-imperial ecosystem management in Africa: continental implications of South African environmental injustices -- 47 Environmental justice and attachment to place: Australian cases -- 48 Environmental justice in South and Southeast Asia: inequalities and struggles in rural and urban contexts -- 49 Environmental justice in a transitional and transboundary context in East Asia -- 50 Environmental justice in Western Europe -- 51 Environmental justice in Central and Eastern Europe: mobilization, stagnation and detraction -- Index

Author : Shawkat Alam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415687171

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Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law by Shawkat Alam Pdf

This handbook is an advanced level reference guide which provides a comprehensive and contemporary overview of the corpus of international environmental law (IEL).

Author : Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000517941

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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements by Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni Pdf

This handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements and activism and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements in different regions of the world, macrostructural conditions and processes underlying their mobilization, the microstructural and social-psychological dimensions of environmental movements and activism, and current trends, as well as prospects for environmental movements and social change. The handbook provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of the art and future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and understanding of environmental movements and activism. It encourages dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between social movement studies and other perspectives and reflects upon the causes and consequences of citizens’ participation in environmental movements and activities. The volume brings historical studies of environmentalism, sociological analyses of the social composition of participants in and sympathizers of environmental movements, investigations by political scientists on the conditions and processes underlying environmental movements and activism, and other disciplinary inquiries together, while keeping a clear focus within social movement theory and research as the main lines of inquiry. The handbook is an essential guide and reference point not only for researchers but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for policymakers and activists.

Author : Tom Perreault,Gavin Bridge,James McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317638711

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The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology by Tom Perreault,Gavin Bridge,James McCarthy Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology presents a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology. Located at the intersection of geography, anthropology, sociology, and environmental history, political ecology is one of the most vibrant and conceptually diverse fields of inquiry into nature-society relations within the social sciences. The Handbook serves as an essential guide to this rapidly evolving intellectual landscape. With contributions from over 50 leading authors, the Handbook presents a systematic overview of political ecology’s origins, practices and core concerns, and aims to advance both ongoing and emerging debates. While there are numerous edited volumes, textbooks, and monographs under the heading ‘political ecology,’ these have tended to be relatively narrow in scope, either as collections of empirically based (mostly case study) research on a given theme, or broad overviews of the field aimed at undergraduate audiences. The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology is the first systematic, comprehensive overview of the field. With authors from North and South America, Europe, Australia and elsewhere, the Handbook of Political Ecology provides a state of the art examination of political ecology; addresses ongoing and emerging debates in this rapidly evolving field; and charts new agendas for research, policy, and activism. The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary academic field. By presenting a ‘state of the art’ examination of the field, it will serve as an invaluable resource for students and scholars. It not only critically reviews the key debates in the field, but develops them. The Handbook will serve as an excellent resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate teaching, and is a key reference text for geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, environmental historians, and others working in and around political ecology.