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- The new urban poor: the Tobas indians
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The author describes the movement of the Tobas indians from their nomadic, rural lifestyle in northern Argentina (due mainly to industrial deforestation) to Rosario, a city of around 1 million inhabitants. He highlights the difficulties the Tobas face in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Struggle for sustainable human and environmental well-being on the Mexican coast of Oaxaca
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In May 2000 a group from Ashoka, a US-based charitable foundation that gives grants to 'social entrepreneurs', or innovators for the common good, visited a number of projects for sustainable development on the coast of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. The autho ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Inequality, environmental injustice, and racism in Brazil: beyond the question of colour
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Starting from an analysis of social and environmental injustice, the author argues that the concept of environmental racism is integral to the hegemonic model of capitalist development. She reveals how the financial mega-conglomerates, helped by the media ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-13 19:06
- NGOs and multi-layered management of protected resources in Belize and Malaysia
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Constrained largely by lack of resources – technical, financial, legal, and/or administrative – governments in developing countries often create multi-layered management structures to regulate and monitor protected resources. Such structures are created w ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs
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Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the developme ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Crop diversity and livelihood security in the Andes
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Andean farmers have traditionally adapted and selected varieties of quinoa and potatoes to reduce their vulnerability to a range of environmental risks. Data suggest that this strategy is being undermined. Market pressures, particularly the requirements f ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:45
- The ‘Knowledge Exchange Train’: a model for capacity building for participatory governance in the south-western Amazon
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National frontiers with ecosystems experiencing rapid changes pose difficult challenges for scientific contributions to democratic processes for environmental governance. We describe an innovative outreach model, the ‘knowledge exchange train’, which comb ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons
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Author: Trawick, Paul B. Publisher: Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Scaling-up natural resource management: insights from research in Latin America
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Scaling-up local innovations in natural resource management (NRM) involves learning that is centred around three themes: promoting local-level innovation, understanding why local innovations work in specific contexts, and reflecting on their relevance in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:46
- Urban sustainability under threat: the restructuring of the fishing industry in Mar del Plata, Argentina
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As a result of the internal and external reforms introduced in the last two decades in Argentina, as in most Latin American countries, urban-based manufacturing activities have experienced a dramatic process of restructuring, which has prompted new social ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
