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Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author : Aldemaro Romero

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 39,94 MB

Release : 2006-02-23

Category : Science

ISBN : 1402037740

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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.



A Living Past

Author : John Soluri

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 310 pages

File Size : 14,79 MB

Release : 2018-02-19

Category : History

ISBN : 1785333917

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Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.



Institutional Frameworks for Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author : Rodrigo Martínez

Publisher : UN

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 31,53 MB

Release : 2018

Category : Political Science

ISBN :

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Foreword .-- Introduction .-- Part 1. Social policy institutions. -- Chapter I. Institutional framework for social development / Rodrigo Martínez, Carlos Maldonado Valera .-- Chapter II. Social development and social protection institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean: overview and challenges / Rodrigo Martínez, Carlos Maldonado Valera .-- Part 2. Components and institutional framewoek of social protection. -- Chapter III. Labour market regulation and social protection: institutional challenges / Mario D. Velásquez Pinto .-- Chapter IV. Institutional aspects of Latin America's pension systems / Andras Uthoff .-- Chapter V. Care as a pillar of social protection: rights, policies and institutions in Latin America / María Nieves Rico, Claudia Robles .-- Part 3. Policies for specific populations and their institutional framework .-- Chapter VI. Life cycle and social policies: youth institutions in the region / Daniela Trucco .-- Chapter VII. Disability and public policy: institutional progress and challenges in Latin America / Heidi Ullmann .-- Chapter VIII. Latin American Afrodescendants: institutional framework and public policies / Marta Rangel.



Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020

Author : OECD

Publisher : OECD Publishing

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 47,96 MB

Release : 2020-03-20

Category :

ISBN : 9264455469

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This third edition of Government at a Glance Latin America and the Caribbean provides the latest available evidence on public administrations and their performance in the LAC region and compares it to OECD countries. This publication includes indicators on public finances and economics, public employment, centres of government, regulatory governance, open government data, public sector integrity, public procurement and for the first time core government results (e.g. trust, inequality reduction).



The State of Latin American and Caribbean Cities 2012

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Page : 196 pages

File Size : 18,11 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Cities and towns

ISBN :

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"With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region on the planet. Located here are some of the largest and bes-known cities, like Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Lima and Santiago. The region also boasts hundreds of smaller cities that stand out because of their dynamism and creativity. This edition of State of Latin American and Caribbean cities presents teh current situation of the region's urban world, including the demographic, economic, social, environmental, urban and institutional conditions in which cities are developing." -- p.4 of cover.



Environmental Justice in Latin America

Author : David V. Carruthers

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 341 pages

File Size : 38,40 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Environmental justice

ISBN : 0262033720

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Scholars and activists investigate the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that illustrate the connections between popular environmental mobilization and social justice in the region.



Latin American Economic Outlook 2019 Development in Transition

Author : OECD

Publisher : OECD Publishing

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 36,85 MB

Release : 2019-09-27

Category :

ISBN : 9264313761

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The Latin American Economic Outlook 2019: Development in Transition (LEO 2019) presents a fresh analytical approach in the region. It assesses four development traps relating to productivity, social vulnerability, institutions and the environment.



UNESCO Science Report

Author : UNESCO

Publisher : UNESCO Publishing

Page : 757 pages

File Size : 30,4 MB

Release : 2021-06-18

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9231004506

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Sovereign Forces

Author : John-Andrew McNeish

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 47,47 MB

Release : 2021-06-11

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1800731094

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Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region. Exploring cases of resource contestation in Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala, Sovereign Forces highlights the value of these relationships to the practice of environmental governance and peacebuilding in the region.