Author: Joana Castro Pereira & Eduardo Viola
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1032058801
This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries risk the forest’s resilience. The authors examine and compare Amazonian politics and policies under different administrations, concentrating on the main actors, policies, and dynamics that have affected the region, as well as on the institutional and political environment in which deforestation processes were embedded. The book contributes toward a better understanding of the challenges confronting conservation policy in the Amazonian countries.
Author: Allen Blackman & 3 more
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1138095731
This rigorously researched book explores the rich biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean, home to half the world’s tropical forests and vital coastal, marine, and agricultural areas. It highlights how human activity, poverty, and weak governance threaten this biodiversity. The book reviews current conservation policies and their effectiveness and calls for data-driven strategies. It proposes five key actions: promoting green agriculture; strengthening protected areas and co-management; improving environmental governance; enhancing coastal and marine resource management; and advancing biodiversity data and policy evaluation, aiming to protect this globally significant region with informed, practical solutions.
Editor: Francisco Dallmeier & 26 more
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN-13: 978-0978846077
This book compiles the latest research on climate change’s impact on biodiversity in the Americas and the sustainability efforts to preserve the region’s ecological integrity. Scientists working in Canada, Puerto Rico, Argentina, the USA, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica contribute their findings in such varied areas as avian populations, the impacts of climate extremes on biodiversity, carbon storage in tree plantations, and the relationship between precipitation and vegetation. The changing climate and human activity are affecting ecosystems throughout the Americas. Governments, NGOs, industries, and communities need to adapt their planning, infrastructure, and operations to mitigate the loss of biodiversity.
Editors: Laurie Collier Hillstrom & Kevin Hillstrom
Publisher: Holtzbrinck
ISBN-13: 978-1576076903
Home to Earth's longest mountain range, largest river, and greatest rainforest, no region boasts greater geographic extremes, faces greater environmental dangers, and enjoys more economic potential from its biodiversity than Latin America and the Caribbean. What are the political and economic factors affecting the Amazon's rapidly disappearing rainforest? What is being done to harvest life-saving drugs from the plants of the Orinoco? And what lies behind the mysterious disappearance of Central America's frogs? The work includes essays, tables and figures, Latin America & the Caribbean examines a region waking up to its environmental problems and possibilities.
Author: Devon G. Peña
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN-13: 9780816522118
Mexican Americans have traditionally held a strong land ethic, believing humans must respect la tierra as the source of la vida. As modern forces exploit the earth, Mexican American communities face environmental injustices—from poisoned farmworkers to children sickened by urban toxins. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, democracy, and sustainability through voices of activists, educators, and more. It presents ecological history, critiques dominant environmentalism, and introduces grassroots struggles. D. Peña contrasts radical environmentalism with Mexican-origin beliefs, showing that environmental ethics must consider cultural and political experiences. Ecology, the book argues, is inseparable from the social realities of life.
Author: Allison Caine
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN-13: 9780816554164
In the high Andean grasslands 4,500 meters above sea level, Quechua alpaca herders live on the edges of glaciers that have retreated more rapidly in the past fifty years than in the previous six millennia. Women are the primary herders, and their knowledge is vital to community survival. Drawing on the Quechua concept of k’ita, or restlessness, Allison Caine explores how herders in Chillca sense and make sense of shifting conditions. Over two years, she herded alongside them, emphasizing Indigenous knowledge and showing how Quechua understandings of restlessness align with and challenge broader ideas of vulnerability in a planetary crisis.
Author: E.N. Anderson, Aurora Dzib Zihum de Cen & 2 more
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN-13: 9780816523931
In Chunhuhub, Quintana Roo, the Conquest is not a done deal. Descendants of heroic Mayans, residents live through subsistence farming while seeking modern opportunities. Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community explores how traditional environmental knowledge coexists with modernization. E. N. Anderson and Maya co-authors detail plant and animal resource management, showing efforts to sustain ancient methods while adapting to new ones. They provide an encyclopedic view of agriculture, medicine, and ecology. Traditional subsistence farming remains broadly sustainable, though hunting and mechanized agriculture pose challenges. The book is a compelling testament to Maya life and sustainable land management.
Author: Vladimir R. Gil Ramón
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN-13: 9780816530717
Mining in Peru has been framed as key to national progress, yet it has brought socioenvironmental costs, unfulfilled hopes for development, and growing conflict. Fighting for Andean Resources examines competing agendas over mining’s benefits and its impact on nearby communities. Vladimir R. Gil Ramón documents how power operates through protocols of accountability used to defend nature and livelihoods. While improvements in well-being are claimed, debate on defining and achieving them remains lacking. With the state often absent, frustration and environmental harm fuel disputes. The book offers a multifaceted view of representation, conflict strategies, and political action in mining-affected areas.
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