Environmental Governance in Latin America

1. Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America
Fábio Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud

Part I. Setting the Stage

2. Origins and Perspectives of Latin American Environmentalism
Joan Martinez-Alier, Michiel Baud, Héctor Sejenovich

3. Social Metabolism and Conflicts over Extractivism
Joan Martinez-Alier, Mariana Walter

4. Indigenous Knowledge in Mexico: Between Environmentalism and Rural Development
Mina Kleiche-Dray, Roland Waast

Part II. New Politics of Natural Resources

5. The Government of Nature: Post-Neoliberal Environmental Governance in Bolivia and Ecuador
Pablo A. Andrade

6. Changing Elites, Institutions and Environmental Governance
Benedicte Bull, Mariel Aguilar-Støen

7. Water-Energy-Mining and Sustainable Consumption: Views of South American Strategic Actors
Cristián Parker, Gloria Baigorrotegui, Fernando Estenssoro

8. Overcoming Poverty Through Sustainable Development
Héctor Sejenovich

Part III. New Projects of Environmental Governance

9. Forest Governance in Latin America: Strategies for Implementing REDD
Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Fabiano Toni, Cecilie Hirsch

10. Rights, Pressures and Conservation in Forest Regions of Mexico
Leticia Merino

11. Local Solutions for Environmental Justice
David Barkin, Blanca Lemus

12. Community Consultations: Local Responses to Large-Scale Mining in Latin America
Mariana Walter, Leire Urkidi

13. Afterword: From Sustainable Development to Environmental Governance
Eduardo Silva

Keywords: Science, Science, general