Author: Hugo Altomonte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789210575355
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
El desafío del desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe es trascendental, por las diferentes dimensiones que lo componen, sus objetivos e instrumentos y los obstáculos que lo condicionan. En esa línea, este libro constituye una contribución al debate sobre el desarrollo, en particular sobre uno de sus retos más grandes, la gobernanza de los recursos naturales. En el caso de los recursos naturales no renovables, el desafío de la gobernanza es aún mayor, debido a su propia naturaleza de recursos agotables, que exige un tratamiento en extremo cuidadoso, que atienda a los criterios más apreciados del desarrollo sostenible y que considere las necesidades de las generaciones futuras como un componente esencial de las decisiones. La gobernanza vigente de los recursos naturales no ha logrado llevar a la región a un proceso virtuoso para el aprovechamiento sostenible de esa riqueza. Como se sostiene a lo largo del documento, la region requiere una nueva gobernanza de los recursos naturales que asegure que los beneficios de su explotación sean sostenibles, que haga un aporte concreto al desarrollo pleno y que contribuya a disminuir las desigualdades existentes. Es por eso que se propone el debate y la construcción de una vision común, como parte del camino hacia una nueva gobernanza de los recursos naturales que logre transformar el capital natural no removable en otras formas de capital perdurable que puedan sostener el ingreso nacional y el proceso de desarrollo sostenible, más allá del ciclo de vida de aquellos recursos.
Hacia una nueva gobernanza de los recursos naturales en América Latina y el Caribe
Author: Hugo Altomonte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789210575355
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
El desafío del desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe es trascendental, por las diferentes dimensiones que lo componen, sus objetivos e instrumentos y los obstáculos que lo condicionan. En esa línea, este libro constituye una contribución al debate sobre el desarrollo, en particular sobre uno de sus retos más grandes, la gobernanza de los recursos naturales. En el caso de los recursos naturales no renovables, el desafío de la gobernanza es aún mayor, debido a su propia naturaleza de recursos agotables, que exige un tratamiento en extremo cuidadoso, que atienda a los criterios más apreciados del desarrollo sostenible y que considere las necesidades de las generaciones futuras como un componente esencial de las decisiones. La gobernanza vigente de los recursos naturales no ha logrado llevar a la región a un proceso virtuoso para el aprovechamiento sostenible de esa riqueza. Como se sostiene a lo largo del documento, la region requiere una nueva gobernanza de los recursos naturales que asegure que los beneficios de su explotación sean sostenibles, que haga un aporte concreto al desarrollo pleno y que contribuya a disminuir las desigualdades existentes. Es por eso que se propone el debate y la construcción de una vision común, como parte del camino hacia una nueva gobernanza de los recursos naturales que logre transformar el capital natural no removable en otras formas de capital perdurable que puedan sostener el ingreso nacional y el proceso de desarrollo sostenible, más allá del ciclo de vida de aquellos recursos.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789210575355
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
El desafío del desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe es trascendental, por las diferentes dimensiones que lo componen, sus objetivos e instrumentos y los obstáculos que lo condicionan. En esa línea, este libro constituye una contribución al debate sobre el desarrollo, en particular sobre uno de sus retos más grandes, la gobernanza de los recursos naturales. En el caso de los recursos naturales no renovables, el desafío de la gobernanza es aún mayor, debido a su propia naturaleza de recursos agotables, que exige un tratamiento en extremo cuidadoso, que atienda a los criterios más apreciados del desarrollo sostenible y que considere las necesidades de las generaciones futuras como un componente esencial de las decisiones. La gobernanza vigente de los recursos naturales no ha logrado llevar a la región a un proceso virtuoso para el aprovechamiento sostenible de esa riqueza. Como se sostiene a lo largo del documento, la region requiere una nueva gobernanza de los recursos naturales que asegure que los beneficios de su explotación sean sostenibles, que haga un aporte concreto al desarrollo pleno y que contribuya a disminuir las desigualdades existentes. Es por eso que se propone el debate y la construcción de una vision común, como parte del camino hacia una nueva gobernanza de los recursos naturales que logre transformar el capital natural no removable en otras formas de capital perdurable que puedan sostener el ingreso nacional y el proceso de desarrollo sostenible, más allá del ciclo de vida de aquellos recursos.
INCREaSE
Author: António Mortal
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319702726
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
This book presents the proceedings of the INternational CongRess on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXI cEntury – INCREaSE 2017, which was held in Faro, Portugal, from October 11 to 13, 2017. The book promotes a multidisciplinary approach to sustainable development, exploring a number of transversal challenges. It discusses natural and anthropogenic risks; tourism and sustainability; healthy food; water and society; sustainable mobility; renewable energy; and energy efficiency, offering perspectives from civil, electronics, mechanical and food engineering.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319702726
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
This book presents the proceedings of the INternational CongRess on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXI cEntury – INCREaSE 2017, which was held in Faro, Portugal, from October 11 to 13, 2017. The book promotes a multidisciplinary approach to sustainable development, exploring a number of transversal challenges. It discusses natural and anthropogenic risks; tourism and sustainability; healthy food; water and society; sustainable mobility; renewable energy; and energy efficiency, offering perspectives from civil, electronics, mechanical and food engineering.
Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America
Author: Walter Leal Filho
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319569465
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This book showcases experiences from research, field projects and best practice in climate change adaptation in countries in the Latin American region, focusing on managing vulnerability and fostering resilience. It includes a selection of papers presented at a specialist symposium on climate change adaptation held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November 2016.Consistent with the need for more cross-sectoral interaction among the various stakeholders working in the field of climate change adaptation in Latin America, the book documents and disseminates the wealth of experiences in the region. It is divided into two main parts: Part 1 addresses the current and future impacts of climate change on fauna, flora and landscapes, while Part 2 is concerned with the socio-economic aspects of climate change adaptation, analyzing some of the main problems prevailing in this vulnerable region and examining ways to address them.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319569465
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This book showcases experiences from research, field projects and best practice in climate change adaptation in countries in the Latin American region, focusing on managing vulnerability and fostering resilience. It includes a selection of papers presented at a specialist symposium on climate change adaptation held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November 2016.Consistent with the need for more cross-sectoral interaction among the various stakeholders working in the field of climate change adaptation in Latin America, the book documents and disseminates the wealth of experiences in the region. It is divided into two main parts: Part 1 addresses the current and future impacts of climate change on fauna, flora and landscapes, while Part 2 is concerned with the socio-economic aspects of climate change adaptation, analyzing some of the main problems prevailing in this vulnerable region and examining ways to address them.
Breaking Ground
Author: Rose J. Spalding
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197643159
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Natural resource extraction, once promoted by international lenders and governing elites as a promising development strategy, is beginning to hit a wall. After decades of landscape gutting and community resistance, mine developers and their allies are facing new challenges. The outcomes of the anti-mining pushback have varied, as increasing payments, episodic repression, and international pressures have deflected some opposition. But operational space has been narrowing in the extractive sector, as evidenced by the growing adoption of mining bans, moratoria, suspensions, and standoffs. This book tells the story of how that happened. In Breaking Ground, Rose J. Spalding examines mining conflict in new extraction zones and reactivated territories--places where "mining as destiny" is a contested idea. Spalding's innovative approach to the mining story traces the construction of mine-friendly rules in up-and-coming mining zones, as late-comers gear up to compete with mining giants. Spalding also excavates the tale of mining containment in countries that have turned away from the extraction model. By challenging deterministic assumptions about the "commodities consensus" in Latin America, Breaking Ground expands the analysis of resource governance to include divergent trajectories, tracing movement not just toward but also away from extractivism. Spalding explores how people living in targeted communities frame their concerns about the impacts of mining and organize to protect local voice and the environment. Then she unpacks the emerging array of policy responses, including those that encompass national level mining rejection. Breaking Ground takes up a timeless set of questions about the interconnection between politics and the environment, now re-examined with a fresh set of eyes.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197643159
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Natural resource extraction, once promoted by international lenders and governing elites as a promising development strategy, is beginning to hit a wall. After decades of landscape gutting and community resistance, mine developers and their allies are facing new challenges. The outcomes of the anti-mining pushback have varied, as increasing payments, episodic repression, and international pressures have deflected some opposition. But operational space has been narrowing in the extractive sector, as evidenced by the growing adoption of mining bans, moratoria, suspensions, and standoffs. This book tells the story of how that happened. In Breaking Ground, Rose J. Spalding examines mining conflict in new extraction zones and reactivated territories--places where "mining as destiny" is a contested idea. Spalding's innovative approach to the mining story traces the construction of mine-friendly rules in up-and-coming mining zones, as late-comers gear up to compete with mining giants. Spalding also excavates the tale of mining containment in countries that have turned away from the extraction model. By challenging deterministic assumptions about the "commodities consensus" in Latin America, Breaking Ground expands the analysis of resource governance to include divergent trajectories, tracing movement not just toward but also away from extractivism. Spalding explores how people living in targeted communities frame their concerns about the impacts of mining and organize to protect local voice and the environment. Then she unpacks the emerging array of policy responses, including those that encompass national level mining rejection. Breaking Ground takes up a timeless set of questions about the interconnection between politics and the environment, now re-examined with a fresh set of eyes.
Latin American Politics and Society
Author: Gerardo L. Munck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108477313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
An engaging introduction to Latin America with a fresh, thematic approach to key political and social issues. This accessible undergraduate textbook examines the entirety of the region, addressing complex issues in a clear and direct manner. Grounded in cutting-edge research and data, concepts are illustrated through tables, maps, and timelines.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108477313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
An engaging introduction to Latin America with a fresh, thematic approach to key political and social issues. This accessible undergraduate textbook examines the entirety of the region, addressing complex issues in a clear and direct manner. Grounded in cutting-edge research and data, concepts are illustrated through tables, maps, and timelines.
Environment, Climate, and Social Justice
Author: Devendraraj Madhanagopal
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811919879
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This book approaches environmental, climate, and social justice comprehensively and interlinked. The contributors, predominantly from the Global South and have lived experiences, challenge the eurocentrism that dominates knowledge production and discourses on environmental and climate [in] justices. The collection of works balances theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects to address environmental and climate justice challenges through the lens of social justice. This book gives voice to scholars of the Global South and uses an interdisciplinary approach to show the complexity of the problem and the opportunities for solutions, making this book a powerful resource in teaching, research, and advocacy efforts. The innovativeness of this approach stems from the use of narratives, scientific explanation, and thematic analysis to present the arguments in each chapter of this edited book. Overall, each chapter of this book acts as a powerful resource in teaching, research, and advocacy efforts. This book fills a gap in the Global South production of environmental, climate, and social justice. It provides in-depth knowledge to the readers and raises their critical thinking about key elements/discussions of justice issues of environmental conflicts and climate change. The book is a useful read to a general audience interested in the topic of climate, environment, and development politics.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811919879
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This book approaches environmental, climate, and social justice comprehensively and interlinked. The contributors, predominantly from the Global South and have lived experiences, challenge the eurocentrism that dominates knowledge production and discourses on environmental and climate [in] justices. The collection of works balances theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects to address environmental and climate justice challenges through the lens of social justice. This book gives voice to scholars of the Global South and uses an interdisciplinary approach to show the complexity of the problem and the opportunities for solutions, making this book a powerful resource in teaching, research, and advocacy efforts. The innovativeness of this approach stems from the use of narratives, scientific explanation, and thematic analysis to present the arguments in each chapter of this edited book. Overall, each chapter of this book acts as a powerful resource in teaching, research, and advocacy efforts. This book fills a gap in the Global South production of environmental, climate, and social justice. It provides in-depth knowledge to the readers and raises their critical thinking about key elements/discussions of justice issues of environmental conflicts and climate change. The book is a useful read to a general audience interested in the topic of climate, environment, and development politics.
Rethinking Taxation in Latin America
Author: Jorge Atria
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319601199
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This study of taxation in Latin America takes a novel approach to the subject, using a framework that posits three dimensions for studying taxes—historical, relational, and transnational. The book argues that: first, taxation should be understood as a relational concept and tax systems as a function of a strategic nexus between the state and society; second, that any analysis of tax systems across Latin America needs to take historical legacies of national tax systems into account; and finally, that transnational phenomena have significant implications for tax regime dynamics in Latin America. The essays included provide diverse and representative insights for a new understanding of taxation in Latin America and highlight the bottlenecks to the development of sustainable tax systems in the region, exploring new links between academic research and policy-making.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319601199
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This study of taxation in Latin America takes a novel approach to the subject, using a framework that posits three dimensions for studying taxes—historical, relational, and transnational. The book argues that: first, taxation should be understood as a relational concept and tax systems as a function of a strategic nexus between the state and society; second, that any analysis of tax systems across Latin America needs to take historical legacies of national tax systems into account; and finally, that transnational phenomena have significant implications for tax regime dynamics in Latin America. The essays included provide diverse and representative insights for a new understanding of taxation in Latin America and highlight the bottlenecks to the development of sustainable tax systems in the region, exploring new links between academic research and policy-making.
Contracting Human Rights
Author: Alison Brysk
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788112334
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human Rights analyzes the way forward in an era of many challenges. This multidisciplinary book contributes to building understanding of the maturation of human rights, from a dissident doctrine to a dynamic parameter of global governance and civil society. Through an examination of both global and local challenges to human rights, including loopholes, backlash, accountability, and new opportunities to move forward, this book analyzes trends across multiple-issue areas.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788112334
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human Rights analyzes the way forward in an era of many challenges. This multidisciplinary book contributes to building understanding of the maturation of human rights, from a dissident doctrine to a dynamic parameter of global governance and civil society. Through an examination of both global and local challenges to human rights, including loopholes, backlash, accountability, and new opportunities to move forward, this book analyzes trends across multiple-issue areas.
Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
Author: Gilles Carbonnier
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004351671
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. Highlighting propositions such as buen vivir, this thematic volume questions whether competing ideologies and discourses have translated into different outcomes, be it with regard to environmental sustainability, social progress, primary commodity dependence, or the rights of indigenous peoples. This collection of articles aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them. Contributors include: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Alberto Acosta, Ana Elizabeth Bastida, Luis Bustos, Humberto Campodónico, Gilles Carbonnier, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara, Fernando Eguren, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Eduardo García, Javier Herrera, Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Robert Muggah, Gianandrea Nelli Feroci, José Antonio Ocampo, Camilo Andrés Peña Galeano, Guillermo Perry, Darío Indalecio Restrepo Botero, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez, and Frédérique Weyer.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004351671
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
This 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. Highlighting propositions such as buen vivir, this thematic volume questions whether competing ideologies and discourses have translated into different outcomes, be it with regard to environmental sustainability, social progress, primary commodity dependence, or the rights of indigenous peoples. This collection of articles aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them. Contributors include: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Alberto Acosta, Ana Elizabeth Bastida, Luis Bustos, Humberto Campodónico, Gilles Carbonnier, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara, Fernando Eguren, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Eduardo García, Javier Herrera, Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Robert Muggah, Gianandrea Nelli Feroci, José Antonio Ocampo, Camilo Andrés Peña Galeano, Guillermo Perry, Darío Indalecio Restrepo Botero, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez, and Frédérique Weyer.
Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2017
Author: United Nations Publications
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789211219609
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The 2017 edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean has three parts. Part I outlines the region's economic performance in 2016 and analyses trends in the early months of 2017, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year. It examines external and domestic factors that have influenced the region's economic performance and draws attention to macroeconomic policy challenges. Part II analyses the characteristics of the current economic cycle in the region (2009-2016) and contrasts it with the two preceding cycles (1990-2001 and 2002-2008). It also identifies and attempts to explain some of the determinants of the cycle and outlines possible strategies for regaining growth. Part III contains notes relating to the economic performance of countries of the region.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789211219609
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The 2017 edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean has three parts. Part I outlines the region's economic performance in 2016 and analyses trends in the early months of 2017, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year. It examines external and domestic factors that have influenced the region's economic performance and draws attention to macroeconomic policy challenges. Part II analyses the characteristics of the current economic cycle in the region (2009-2016) and contrasts it with the two preceding cycles (1990-2001 and 2002-2008). It also identifies and attempts to explain some of the determinants of the cycle and outlines possible strategies for regaining growth. Part III contains notes relating to the economic performance of countries of the region.