Land in Latin America Or the Common Tragedy of the Insecure
Author : Frank Vogelgesang
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Frank Vogelgesang
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Allen Blackman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1317906861
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse. It contains about half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, nearly one-fifth of its coastal habitats, and some of its most productive agricultural and marine areas. But agriculture, fishing and other human activities linked to rapid population and economic growth increasingly threaten that biodiversity. Moreover, poverty, weak regulatory capacity, and limited political will hamper conservation. Given this dilemma, it is critically important to design conservation strategies on the basis of the best available information about both biodiversity and the track records of the various policies that have been used to protect it. This rigorously researched book has three key aims. It describes the status of biodiversity in LAC, the main threats to this biodiversity, and the drivers of these threats. It identifies the main policies being used to conserve biodiversity and assesses their effectiveness and potential for further implementation. It proposes five specific lines of practical action for conserving LAC biodiversity, based on: green agriculture; strengthening terrestrial protected areas and co-management; improving environmental governance; strengthening coastal and marine resource management; and improving biodiversity data and policy evaluation.
Author : Jan Knippers Black
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 081334400X
Revised and updated throughout, this multidisciplinary survey of Latin American history, politics, and society features chapters on individual countries by invited authorities.
Author : Douglas DeWitt Southgate
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Clearing of land
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Author : Blake Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 1351669249
This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources. Such frameworks include those related to Institutional Analysis and Development, Social-Ecological Systems, and Polycentricity, among others. The book aggregates and analyses these frameworks to lay a foundation for exploring how they apply according to scholars across a wide range of disciplines. It includes an exploration of the unique problems arising in different disciplines of commons study, including natural resources (forests, oceans, water, energy, ecosystems, etc), economics, law, governance, the humanities, and intellectual property. It shows how the analytical frameworks discussed early in the book facilitate interdisciplinarity within commons scholarship. This interdisciplinary approach within the context of analytical frameworks helps facilitate a more complete understanding of the similarities and differences faced by commons resource users and managers, the usefulness of the commons lens as an analytical tool for studying resource management problems, and the best mechanisms by which to formulate policies aimed at addressing such problems. Chapter 26 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138060906_oachapter26.pdf
Author : Stephen Baranyi
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Land reform
ISBN : 1896770673
Co-published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
Author : John O. Browder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429713665
This book of selected research papers, originally presented at the "Symposium of Fragile Lands of Latin America—The Search for Sustainable Uses," presents some fresh evidence of the viability of a few "non-conventional" strategies for natural resource development and management.
Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 1992
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ISBN : 1843691426
Author : E. B. Zoomers
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Land reform
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Author : Michael Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135993580
First Published in 2011. Latin America today is similar to Canada in the early 1900s-a sleeping giant, basically underpopulated, whose potential rests on the exploitation of enormous land, forest, mineral, and water reserves. This study, carried out over the period 1967-69, has involved travel throughout much of Latin America north of the Tropic of Capricorn and discussions with people in many different fields, including highway construction, forestry, colonization, and agricultural industries in the forest frontier regions and capital cities of the continent. The collection of data required about twelve months of the author in the field.