Routledge handbook of Latin America and the environment. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of Latin America and the environment; Latin America and the environment
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Beatriz Bustos-Gallardo, Salvatore Engel-di Mauro, Gustavo García-López, Felipe Milanez, Diana Ojeda.
• Editors: Bustos, Beatriz (Bustos Gallardo); Engel-Di Mauro, Salvatore; García López, Gustavo A; Ojeda, Diana; Milanez, Felipe
• Contents: Part I Introduction Chapter 1 Suturing the Open Veins of Latin America, Building Epistemic Bridges: Latin-American Environmentalism for the 21st Century Beatriz Bustos, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Gustavo García-López, Felipe Milanez, and Diana Ojeda Part II: Biophysical Processes and Environmental Histories Chapter 2. Latin American ecosystems vulnerability in a climate change scenario Patricio Pliscoff Chapter 3. Soil degradation and land cover change in Latin America Daniela Manuschevich, Marco Pfeiffer, and Jorge Perez-Quezada Chapter 4. Climate Change Impacts on Caribbean Coastal Ecosystems: Emergent Ecological and Environmental Geography Challenges Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado Chapter 5. An Environmental History of the ‘Second Conquest’: Agricultural Export Boom and Landscape-Making in Latin America, ca.1850-1930 Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Lise Sédrez Chapter 6. Extractivism: The Port-a-cathed Veins of Guatemala Liza Grandia Chapter 7. Environmental Colonialism and Neocolonialism in Latin America Chris O’Connell and Rocio Silva Santisteban Chapter 8. Water scarcity in Latin America Maria Fragkou, Natalia Dias Tadeu, Vanessa Empinotti, Rodrigo Fuster, Maria Teresa Oré, Facundo Rojas, Anahí Urquiza, and Lucrecia Wagner Part III: Latin American Environmental Issues in Political-Economic Context Chapter 9. The Political Economy of the Environment in Latin America Amalia Leguizamón Chapter 10. Ecological debt and extractivism Tatiana Roa Avendaño Chapter 11. Trajectories of adaptation to climate change in Latin American cities: Climate justice blind spots María Gabriela Merslinsky and Melina Ayelén Tobías Chapter 12. Environmental disasters and critical politics Alejandro Camargo and Juan Antonio Cardoso Chapter 13. Latin America in the Chemical Vortex of Agrarian Capitalism María Soledad Castro Vargas and Finn Mempel Chapter 14. Resource Radicalisms Thea Riofrancos Chapter 15. The fruits of labor or the fruits of nature? Towards a political ecology of labor in Central America Andrés León Araya Chapter 16. Transnationals, Dependent Development and the Environment in Latin America in the 21st Century Paul Cooney Chapter 17. Challenging the logic of ‘the open veins’? The geography of resource rents distribution in Peru and Bolivia Felipe Irarrazaval Part IV: Environmental Struggle and Resistance Chapter 18. Resistance of women from "sacrifice zones" to extractivism in Chile. A framework for rethinking a feminist political ecology Paola Bolados García Chapter 19. Environmental conflicts and violence in Latin America: Experiences from Peru Raquel Neyra Chapter 20. Quilombos and the Fight Against Racism in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic Givânia Maria da Silva and Bárbara Oliveira Souza Chapter 21. The "Greening" by Sustainable Development: Stretching Biopiracy Ana Isla Chapter 22. Territorialization through the Milpa: Zapatismo and Indigenous Autonomy Mariana Mora Chapter 23. Indigenous Autonomies as Alternative Horizons in Latin America: Societal movements and other territorialities in Bolivia and Mexico Pabel López Flores Chapter 24. Land occupations and land reform in Brazil Nashieli Rangel Loera Chapter 25. From Chico Mendes to Berta Cáceres: responses to the murders of environmental defenders Diana Jiménez Thomas, Grettel Navas, and Arnim Scheidel Part V: Environmental Disputes and Policies Chapter 26. Latin America's Approach in the International Environmental Debate. From Stockholm 72 to Rio + 20. Between "eco-development" and "sustainable development" Fernando Estenssoro Saavedra Chapter 27. Degrowth and Buen Vivir: perspectives for a great transformation Alberto Acosta Chapter 28. Social Cartographies in Latin America Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre Chapter 29. Rights of Nature and Specialization in Jurisprudence: Moving Forward to Better Protect Our Environment? Ximena Insunza Corvalán Chapter 30. How tenure reform processes can lead to community-based resource management? Experiences from Latin America Iliana Monterroso Chapter 31. Environmental Policy and Institutional Change: The Consequences of Mobilization Ezra Spira-Cohen and Eduardo Silva Part VI: Toward Oppression-Free Futures Chapter 32. Feminist thought and environmental defense in Latin America Diana Ojeda Chapter 33. Decolonising time through communalising spatial practices María Carolina Olarte-Olarte and María Juliana Flórez Flórez Chapter 34. Environmental Thought in Movement: Territory, Ecologisms, and Liberation in Latin America Melissa Moreano Venegas, Diana Carolina Murillo Martín, Nadia Romero Salgado, Karolien Van Teijlingen, Iñigo Arrazola Aranzabal, Manuel Bayón Jiménez, Angus Lyall and Diana Vela-Almeida Chapter 35. Agroecology and Food Sovereignty in the Caribbean: Insights from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Sint Maarten Georges F. Félix Chapter 36. Re-existance struggles and socio-ecological alternatives for reproduction of dignified and sustainable life in territories affected by the extractivist offensive in Latin America Mina Lorena Navarro, Sandra Rátiva Gaona, and Talita Furtado Montezuma Chapter 37. The Dimensions of Life: Environment, Subject, and Amerindian Thought Ailton Krenak and Felipe Milanez Chapter 38. Environmental Justice Movements as Movements for Life and Decolonization: Experiences from Puerto Rico Katia R. Avilés-Vázquez, Gustavo García-López, Carol E. Ramos Gerena, Evelyn Moreno Ortiz, Elga Vanessa Uriarte Centeno, Roberto Thomas Ramírez, Jesús J. Vázquez Negrón, Marissa Reyes Díaz, José Santos Valderrama, and Angélica M. Reyes Díaz Chapter 39. Community Contributions to a Just Energy Transition Juan Pablo Soler Villamizar
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (472 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 363.70098; Environmental degradation -- Latin America; Environmental sociology -- Latin America; Environmental economics -- Latin America; Environmental justice -- Latin America; Environmental policy -- Latin America; Latin America -- Environmental conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000869026; 9781000869002
• Related ISBNs: 9780367361860
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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