Author: Ingemar Hedström
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : es
Pages : 336
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La Situación ambiental en Centroamérica y el Caribe
Author: Ingemar Hedström
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : es
Pages : 336
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : es
Pages : 336
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Green Guidance for Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Lori Ann Thrupp
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Proceedings
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Category : Biomass chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : Biomass chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities
Author: Timothy O'Riordan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890526
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890526
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Trees, People and Power
Author: Peter Utting
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134065264
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Behind the headlines about the loss of tropical forests in Latin America lies a complex and fascinating story of the social pressures which cause it. Trees, People and Power looks at the various groups, interests and conflicts involved, and explores the repercussions for forestry, the environment and the livelihoods of the rural and urban poor. Until the social and political dimensions of deforestation and forest protection schemes are understood, measures to prevent or slow deforestation are likely to involve technical interventions which will prove ineffective in the long run, and may well result in further impoverishment and environmental degradation. Peter Utting takes a critical look at the experience of forest protection and tree planting in a number of countries and considers how social and political factors affect the feasability of such schemes. Many environmental projects and programmes have failed to balance concerns for the environment with those of human welfare. Until they do, it is unrealistic to expect any significant progress towards sustainable development. Peter Utting is a senior researcher coordinator with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. He is the author of Economic Adjustment under the Sandinistas (UNRISD, 1991) and Economic Reform and Third World Socialism (Macmillan, 1992). Originally published in 1993
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134065264
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Behind the headlines about the loss of tropical forests in Latin America lies a complex and fascinating story of the social pressures which cause it. Trees, People and Power looks at the various groups, interests and conflicts involved, and explores the repercussions for forestry, the environment and the livelihoods of the rural and urban poor. Until the social and political dimensions of deforestation and forest protection schemes are understood, measures to prevent or slow deforestation are likely to involve technical interventions which will prove ineffective in the long run, and may well result in further impoverishment and environmental degradation. Peter Utting takes a critical look at the experience of forest protection and tree planting in a number of countries and considers how social and political factors affect the feasability of such schemes. Many environmental projects and programmes have failed to balance concerns for the environment with those of human welfare. Until they do, it is unrealistic to expect any significant progress towards sustainable development. Peter Utting is a senior researcher coordinator with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. He is the author of Economic Adjustment under the Sandinistas (UNRISD, 1991) and Economic Reform and Third World Socialism (Macmillan, 1992). Originally published in 1993
Deforestation
Author: Ellen Kay Miller
Publisher:
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Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Kicking Off the Bootstraps
Author: Déborah Berman Santana
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816545596
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
While small communities in Third World countries usually seem at the mercy of central governments and foreign capitalists, local activists can help exploited peoples correct environmental abuses and social injustices and seize control of their own destinies. Kicking Off the Bootstraps is a powerful case history of such an effort. It describes a grassroots activist movement that emerged in the Puerto Rican community of Salinas to counter the poverty and economic dependence experienced by its citizens in the wake of "Operation Bootstrap," a post-World War II industrial development program. Déborah Berman Santana examines the efforts of the community to develop its own economic strategy based primarily on environmentally and socially responsible uses of local natural and human resources. Berman Santana shows how local activists are seeking to empower the Salinas community to make decisions concerning economic development. She evaluates present-day efforts to develop positive alternatives, examining the motivations of the activists, the nature of their projects, their efforts to mobilize the community, their dealings with government and other organizations, and the obstacles they face. In a closing chapter, she addresses the potential roles of community leaders, outside activists, local businesses, and government in actualizing these alternatives. A testimony to one community's efforts to determine its own future, Kicking Off the Bootstraps deals with real issues such as control over productive resources, quality of life, and environmental health. It also extends an examination of community-directed activism to an exploration of policy implications for sustainable development. While this concept is often too vague to be applied to real strategies, the Salinas experience provides a clear idea of what sustainable development can—and should—mean in actual practice.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816545596
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
While small communities in Third World countries usually seem at the mercy of central governments and foreign capitalists, local activists can help exploited peoples correct environmental abuses and social injustices and seize control of their own destinies. Kicking Off the Bootstraps is a powerful case history of such an effort. It describes a grassroots activist movement that emerged in the Puerto Rican community of Salinas to counter the poverty and economic dependence experienced by its citizens in the wake of "Operation Bootstrap," a post-World War II industrial development program. Déborah Berman Santana examines the efforts of the community to develop its own economic strategy based primarily on environmentally and socially responsible uses of local natural and human resources. Berman Santana shows how local activists are seeking to empower the Salinas community to make decisions concerning economic development. She evaluates present-day efforts to develop positive alternatives, examining the motivations of the activists, the nature of their projects, their efforts to mobilize the community, their dealings with government and other organizations, and the obstacles they face. In a closing chapter, she addresses the potential roles of community leaders, outside activists, local businesses, and government in actualizing these alternatives. A testimony to one community's efforts to determine its own future, Kicking Off the Bootstraps deals with real issues such as control over productive resources, quality of life, and environmental health. It also extends an examination of community-directed activism to an exploration of policy implications for sustainable development. While this concept is often too vague to be applied to real strategies, the Salinas experience provides a clear idea of what sustainable development can—and should—mean in actual practice.
The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America
Author: Michael Painter
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065608
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An important and timely study of environmental degradation in Central and South America
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065608
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An important and timely study of environmental degradation in Central and South America
Peasants Against Globalization
Author: Marc Edelman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804736930
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"The author argues that the experience of rural activism in Costa Rica in the 1980s and 1990s calls into question much current theory about collective action, peasantries, development, and ethnographic research. The book invites the reader to rethink debates about old and new social movements, to grapple with the ethical and methodological dilemmas of engaged ethnography, to retrace the long history of development ignored by its postmodernist critics, and to come face-to-face with peasants stubbornly committed to survival."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804736930
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"The author argues that the experience of rural activism in Costa Rica in the 1980s and 1990s calls into question much current theory about collective action, peasantries, development, and ethnographic research. The book invites the reader to rethink debates about old and new social movements, to grapple with the ethical and methodological dilemmas of engaged ethnography, to retrace the long history of development ignored by its postmodernist critics, and to come face-to-face with peasants stubbornly committed to survival."--BOOK JACKET.
Discussion Paper
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Publisher:
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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