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Author : Andrew M. Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Ecuador's Environmental Struggle written by Andrew M. Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Vela Almeida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Discourse Analysis of the Environmental Policy in Ecuador: a Struggle Between Different Coalitions written by D. Vela Almeida and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tammy L. Lewis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034298
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions written by Tammy L. Lewis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins, neoliberal boom, neoliberal bust, and citizens' revolution. Ecuador is biologically diverse, petroleum rich, and economically poor. Its extraordinary biodiversity has attracted attention and funding from such transnational environmental organizations as Conservation International, the World Wildlife Fund, and the United States Agency for International Development. In Ecuador itself there are more than 200 environmental groups dedicated to sustainable development, and the country's 2008 constitution grants constitutional rights to nature. The current leftist government is committed both to lifting its people out of poverty and pursuing sustainable development, but petroleum extraction is Ecuador's leading source of revenue. While extraction generates economic growth, which supports the state's social welfare agenda, it also causes environmental destruction. Given these competing concerns, will Ecuador be able to achieve sustainability? In this book, Tammy Lewis examines the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins (1978 to 1987), neoliberal boom (1987 to 2000), neoliberal bust (2000 to 2006), and citizens' revolution (2006 to 2015). Lewis presents a typology of Ecuador's environmental organizations: ecoimperialists, transnational environmentalists from other countries; ecodependents, national groups that partner with transnational groups; and ecoresisters, home-grown environmentalists who reject the dominant development paradigm. She examines the interplay of transnational funding, the Ecuadorian environmental movement, and the state's environmental and development policies. Along the way, addressing literatures in environmental sociology, social movements, and development studies, she explores what configuration of forces—political, economic, and environmental—is most likely to lead to a sustainable balance between the social system and the ecosystem.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book An Assessment of Urban Environmental Problems in Ecuador written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Latorre Tomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788449040931
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Struggles Over Accumulstion by Environmental Dispossession in Ecuador written by Sara Latorre Tomas and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta disertación doctoral consiste en un análisis macro y micro sobre acciones de resistencia frente a procesos de desposesión ambiental en Ecuador durante el periodo de globalización. Este es un tópico de gran relevancia debido a la gran expansión de procesos de acumulación por apropiación que se están dando a escala global y especialmente en el Sur global durante la actual fase global del capitalismo. La perspectiva macro busca proveer una visión general sobre la naturaleza y dinámica de los interrelacionados procesos de acumulación por desposesión y resistencia frente a éstos. Esta aproximación al tema de estudio permite estudiar los subyacentes procesos estructurales existentes en una diversidad de casos analizados sobre extracción de recursos, infraestructuras y disposición de residuos (64 en total). A su vez, la perspectiva micro busca profundizar en una tipología específica de estos procesos de desposesión y resistencia. Concretamente, se centra en la estrategia política implementada por el movimiento de recolectores del manglar en su lucha contra la expansión de la industria camaronera en el Ecuador. Específicamente pone su atención en el proceso de articulación de este sujeto político, su estrategia de representación y su evolución en el tiempo. En el año 2007, este movimiento social se auto-representó como "Pueblos Ancestrales del Ecosistema Manglar", y de este modo, empezaron a enmarcar sus demandas por justicia ambiental en un novedoso discurso étnico. Teoréticamente, este trabajo combina cuestiones vinculadas a los campos de la Ecología Política y Metabolismo Social con conceptos provenientes de la Economía Política, Teoría de Movimientos Sociales, y la literatura sobre Política de la Identidad etno-racial. A su vez, a nivel metodológico, adopta una perspectiva cualitativa basada en trabajo de campo antropológico. Mi objetivo es entrar en diálogo entre lo particular y general. Es decir, aprehender la riqueza y relevancia de este sujeto político sin renunciar a estudiar los procesos globales que lo modelan así como otros casos similares en el Ecuador y más a allá de éste. En este sentido, esta tesis realiza sus principales contribuciones teóricas a la literatura sobre política identitaria etno-racial, y particularmente aquella referida al campo de la indigeneidad con especial referencia a América Latina, y al estudio de Conflictos Ambientales y Justicia Ambiental en el mundo entero.
Author : Todd A. Eisenstadt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190908971
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Who Speaks for Nature? written by Todd A. Eisenstadt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, Ecuador became the first nation ever to enshrine rights for nature in its constitution. Nature was accorded inalienable rights, and every citizen was granted standing to defend those rights. At the same time, the government advanced a policy of "extractive populism," buying public support for mineral mining by promising that funds from the mining would be used to increase public services. This book, based on a nationwide survey and interviews about environmental attitudes among citizens as well as indigenous, environmental, government, academic, and civil society leaders in Ecuador, offers a theory about when and why individuals will speak for nature, particularly when economic interests are at stake. Parting from conventional social science arguments that political attitudes are determined by ethnicity or social class, the authors argue that environmental dispositions in developing countries are shaped by personal experiences of vulnerability to environmental degradation. Abstract appeals to identity politics, on the other hand, are less effective. Ultimately, this book argues that indigenous groups should be the stewards of nature, but that they must do so by appealing to the concrete, everyday vulnerabilities they face, rather than by turning to the more abstract appeals of ethnic-based movements.
Author : Jörg Hettler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Environmental Problems of Petroleum Production in the Amazon Lowland of Ecuador written by Jörg Hettler and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fanli Jia
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889634442
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Environmental Engagement and Cultural Value: Global Perspectives for Protecting the Natural World written by Fanli Jia and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental issues are a rapidly growing focal point in today’s global discussion. These issues are becoming increasingly pertinent due to the potentially devastating outcomes of human environmental carelessness. As a species, humans now have realized the need for worldwide environmental engagement. This engagement is intended to heighten awareness about environmental problems, build knowledge in education, and change human behaviors to improve sustainability. Synthesizing the literature on cultural dimensions (e.g., attitudes, beliefs, values) that undergird positive views of environmental issues and engagement of sustainability practices would significantly contribute to the development of effective approaches to fostering sustainable environmental practices. Through the identification of commonalities across cultures and sensitivity to cultural differences we can begin to work toward a global consensus on viable solutions this critical issue.
Author : Aldemaro Romero
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402037740
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Aldemaro Romero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of readings that explore environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean using natural science and social science methods. These papers demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and solve environmental problems. The essays are organized into five parts: conservation challenges; national policies, local communities, and rural development; market mechanisms for protecting public goods; public participation and environmental justice; and the effects of development policies on the environment.
Author : Patricia Widener
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442208619
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Oil Injustice written by Patricia Widener and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil histories in response to the construction of an oil pipeline. Using multiple sites in Ecuador as case studies, Patricia Widener examines the efforts of grassrootsgroups, non-governmental organizations, activist mayors, and transnational advocates that mobilized to redefine the country's oil path and to represent the voice of many local communities and organizations that sought to offer an alternative to the nation's oil dependency and to the use of its oil wealth. These groups generated divergent and at times rival reactions to the pipeline, though at their core, the multiple campaigns developed from a shared history and awareness of a number of marginalized communities and degraded environments in areas most important to the oil process. Widener shows that global environmental justice demands are bound within a capitalist political system, where community activists, national NGOs and their international allies are forced to seek local change rather than attempt to defeat a disabling and unequal system.
Author : Marta Echavarria
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843694840
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Impacts of Payments for Watershed Services in Ecuador written by Marta Echavarria and published by IIED. This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzana Sawyer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822385759
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Crude Chronicles written by Suzana Sawyer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies. Against the backdrop of mounting government attempts to privatize and liberalize the national economy, Suzana Sawyer shows how neoliberal reforms in Ecuador led to a crisis of governance, accountability, and representation that spurred one of twentieth-century Latin America’s strongest indigenous movements. Through her rich ethnography of indigenous marches, demonstrations, occupations, and negotiations, Sawyer tracks the growing sophistication of indigenous politics as Indians subverted, re-deployed, and, at times, capitulated to the dictates and desires of a transnational neoliberal logic. At the same time, she follows the multiple maneuvers and discourses that the multinational corporation and the Ecuadorian state used to circumscribe and contain indigenous opposition. Ultimately, Sawyer reveals that indigenous struggles over land and oil operations in Ecuador were as much about reconfiguring national and transnational inequality—that is, rupturing the silence around racial injustice, exacting spaces of accountability, and rewriting narratives of national belonging—as they were about the material use and extraction of rain-forest resources.
Author : Weltbank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Republic of Ecuador Country Environmental Analysis written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecuador is a country with exceptional natural resource and environmental advantages and challenges. It is strategically located and has considerable oil reserves in the interior and the coastal region. This document does not aim to describe the state of the environment in Ecuador. Rather, its main objective is to provide an analytical foundation to identify the country's institutional weaknesses and provide practical policy options that will enhance its capacity to establish and address environmental policy priorities linked to poverty reduction and sustained economic growth. Linking environmental considerations to sectoral projects and policies will provide important information on key synergies and tradeoffs involving the environment, economic growth, and poverty. The second objective is to guide environmental assistance and capacity building supported by the bank or other development partners through the assessment of capacity issues, especially in relation to specific environmental priorities. The main elements of the Country Environment Analysis (CEA) include analyses of: a) environment and natural- resource-related institutions, b) the environmental aspects of the oil sector, c) forestry, d) conservation, e) environmental-health, and f) climate change. The CEA also identifies policy recommendations and describes the role that the World Bank could play in helping the Government of Ecuador (GOE) strengthen its institutional capacity in order to address the country's natural resource and environmental problems in a more effective way.
Author : Kate Swanson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334650
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Begging as a Path to Progress written by Kate Swanson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, Calhuasí, an isolated Andean town, got its first road. Newly connected to Ecuador's large cities, Calhuasí experienced rapid social-spatial change, which Kate Swanson richly describes in Begging as a Path to Progress. Based on nineteen months of fieldwork, Swanson's study pays particular attention to the ideas and practices surrounding youth. While begging seems to be inconsistent with—or even an affront to—ideas about childhood in the developed world, Swanson demonstrates that the majority of income earned from begging goes toward funding Ecuadorian children's educations in hopes of securing more prosperous futures. Examining beggars' organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which children can express agency and fulfill personal ambitions through begging, Swanson argues that Calhuasí's beggars are capable of canny engagement with the forces of change. She also shows how frequent movement between rural and urban Ecuador has altered both, masculinizing the countryside and complicating the Ecuadorian conflation of whiteness and cities. Finally, her study unpacks ongoing conflicts over programs to “clean up” Quito and other major cities, noting that revanchist efforts have had multiple effects—spurring more dangerous transnational migration, for example, while also providing some women and children with tourist-friendly local spaces in which to sell a notion of Andean authenticity.
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Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 955817744X
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Payment for water-based environmental services : Ecuador's experiences, lessons learned and ways forward written by and published by IUCN. This book was released on with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul M. Barrett
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770436366
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Law of the Jungle written by Paul M. Barrett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest. Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron’s lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules. Donziger, a larger-than-life, loud-mouthed showman, proved himself a master orchestrator of the media, Hollywood, and public opinion. He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the theory that his noble ends justified any means of persuasion. And in the end, he won an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against Chevon--the biggest environmental damages award in history. But the company refused to surrender or compromise. Instead, Chevron targeted Donziger personally, and its counter-attack revealed damning evidence of his politicking and manipulation of evidence. Suddenly the verdict, and decades of Donziger’s single-minded pursuit of the case, began to unravel. Written with the texture and flair of the best narrative nonfiction, Law of the Jungle is an unputdownable story in which there are countless victims, a vast region of ruined rivers and polluted rainforest, but very few heroes.
Author : Rutgerd Boelens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351973649
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity written by Rutgerd Boelens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories. Hydrosocial territories are spatial configurations of people, institutions, water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the control of water. Territorial politics finds expression in encounters of diverse actors with divergent spatial and political–geographical interests; as a result, water (in)justice and (in)equity are embedded in these socio-ecological contexts. The territory-building projections and strategies compete, superimpose and align to strengthen specific water-control claims of various interests. As a result, actors continuously recompose the territory’s hydraulic grid, cultural reference frames, and political–economic relationships. Using a political ecology focus, the different contributions to this book explore territorial struggles, demonstrating that these contestations are not merely skirmishes over natural resources, but battles over meaning, norms, knowledge, identity, authority and discourses. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Water International.
