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The Yasuní-ITT Initiative - A Revolutionary Idea Deemed to Fail?
Author: Oil in the Soil
Author: Pamela L. MartinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 144221130X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Paradise may have been found in the Western Amazon, but it is on the brink of destruction. Oil in the Soil analyzes the campaign to save the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block of Yasuní National Park in Ecuador's Amazon and the global networks that have resulted in one of the world's most innovative plans to save the Amazon and other biodiverse places on our planet. Pamela L. Martin examines the path-breaking global environmental governance mechanisms that have resulted from the transnational networks of the Yasuní-ITT campaign and their implications for replication around the world. The analysis of these networks reveals new dynamics of mobilization from the South, which may impact the future of global environmental negotiations. Martin also examines the alternative norms behind the initiative in the words of governmental and non-governmental actors. Such normative changes demonstrate the global struggles of the resource-dependent poor and provide insights toward new pathways of sustainable development for the planet.
The Yasuní-itt Initiative
Author: Laura DigiulioYasuní-ITT-initiative
Author: Graciela Carbo ProañoEnding the Fossil Fuel Era
Author: Thomas PrincenPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262028808
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway.Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside.A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle technology, a carbon market, or lifestyle change. This book shows that it is now possible to take the first step toward the post-fossil fuel era, by resisting the slow violence of extreme extraction and combustion, exiting the industry, and imagining a good life after fossil fuels. It shows how an environmental politics of transition might occur, arguing for going to the source rather than managing byproducts, for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, for engaging a politics of deliberately choosing a post-fossil fuel world. Six case studies reveal how individuals, groups, communities, and an entire country have taken first steps out of the fossil fuel era, with experiments that range from leaving oil under the Amazon to ending mountaintop removal in Appalachia.
Social and Political Sciences of the Environment
Author: Pieter LeroyPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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The Netherlands is regarded as a leading country in the field of environmental sciences, and its environmental policy is widely considered as sophisticated. But what do political and social sciences contribute to this policy? What have Dutch political and social scientists achieved with regard to environmental problems, and where do they stand in comparison to what is going on internationally? The authors give an overview of three decades of research by Dutch political and social scientists of the environment. Within that legacy, they distinguish studies concerning the structural basis of environmental studies, as well as research into environmental attitudes and behaviour, environmental communication, the environmental movement and environmental policy. They identify the predominant research issues and those topics that have hitherto been relatively neglected.
Subterranean Struggles
Author: Anthony BebbingtonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292748647
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. The first analytical collection to combine geographical and political ecological approaches to the post-1990s changes in Latin America’s extractive economy, Subterranean Struggles closely examines the factors driving this expansion and the sociopolitical, environmental, and political economic consequences it has wrought. In this analysis, more than a dozen experts explore the many facets of struggles surrounding extraction, from protests in the vicinity of extractive operations to the everyday efforts of excluded residents who try to adapt their livelihoods while industries profoundly impact their lived spaces. The book explores the implications of extractive industry for ideas of nature, region, and nation; “resource nationalism” and environmental governance; conservation, territory, and indigenous livelihoods in the Amazon and Andes; everyday life and livelihood in areas affected by small- and large-scale mining alike; and overall patterns of social mobilization across the region. Arguing that such struggles are an integral part of the new extractive economy in Latin America, the authors document the increasingly conflictive character of these interactions, raising important challenges for theory, for policy, and for social research methodologies. Featuring works by social and natural science authors, this collection offers a broad synthesis of the dynamics of extractive industry whose relevance stretches to regions beyond Latin America.
Moving Ahead with REDD: Issues, Options and Implications
Author: Arild AngelsenPublisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 9791412766
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Sustainable Development Research and Practice in Mexico and Selected Latin American Countries
Author: Walter Leal FilhoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319705601
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This book provides an essential overview of sustainable development research in Mexico. It discusses the empirical research methods and findings, as well as practical initiatives and projects being pursued in Mexico and other countries in the region. Although a number of Mexican universities are now conducting high-quality research on matters related to sustainable development, there are few publications that offer a multidisciplinary overview of research efforts for a broader audience. This book addresses that gap in the literature, providing researchers at Mexican universities – including those from other countries working in Mexico – with an opportunity to present their work, i.e. curriculum innovations, empirical work, activities, case studies, and practical projects. As such, it fosters the exchange of information, ideas and experiences, successful initiatives and best practices.
Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia
Author: Flora LuPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137533625
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This book addresses the political ecology of the Ecuadorian petro-state since the turn of the century and contextualizes state-civil society relations in contemporary Ecuador to produce an analysis of oil and Revolution in twenty-first century Latin America. Ecuador’s recent history is marked by changes in state-citizen relations: the election of political firebrand, Rafael Correa; a new constitution recognizing the value of pluriculturality and nature’s rights; and new rules for distributing state oil revenues. One of the most emblematic projects at this time is the Correa administration’s Revolución Ciudadana, an oil-funded project of social investment and infrastructural development that claims to blaze a responsible and responsive path towards wellbeing for all Ecuadorians. The contributors to this book examine the key interventions of the recent political revolution—the investment of oil revenues into public works in Amazonia and across Ecuador; an initiative to keep oil underground; and the protection of the country’s most marginalized peoples—to illustrate how new forms of citizenship are required and forged. Through a focus on Amazonia and the Waorani, this book analyzes the burdens and opportunities created by oil-financed social and environmental change, and how these alter life in Amazonian extraction sites and across Ecuador.