Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment

<p>The <i>Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment</i> provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region. It will help readers make connections between Latin American and other regions’ perspectives, experiences, and environmental concerns.</p><p>Latin America has seen an acceleration of environmental degradation due to the expansion of resource extraction and urban areas. This Handbook addresses Latin America not only as an object of study, but also as a region with a long and profound history of critical thinking on these themes. Furthermore, the Handbook departs from most treatments on the topic by studying the environment as a social issue inextricably linked to politics, economy, and culture. The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for those wanting not only to understand the issues, but also to engage with ideas about environmental politics and social-ecological transformation. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics organized according to three areas: physical geography, ecology, and crucial environmental problems of the region. These are key theoretical and methodological issues used to understand Latin America’s ecosocial contexts, and institutional and grassroots practices related to more just and ecologically sustainable worlds.</p><p>The Handbook will set a research agenda for the near future and provide comprehensive research on most subregions relative to environmental transformations, challenges, struggles and political processes. It stands as a fresh and much needed state of the art introduction for researchers, scholars, post-graduates and academic audiences on Latin American contributions to theorization, empirical research and environmental practices.</p> <p><strong>Part I Introduction</strong></p><p>Chapter 1. Suturing the Open Veins of Latin America, Building Epistemic Bridges: Latin-American Environmentalism for the 21st Century</p><p>Part II Biophysical Processes and Environmental Histories</p><p>Chapter 2. Latin American ecosystems vulnerability in a climate change scenario</p><p>Chapter 3. Soil degradation and land cover change in Latin America</p><p>Chapter 4. Climate Change Impacts on Caribbean Coastal Ecosystems: Emergent Ecological and Environmental Geography Challenges</p><p>Chapter 5. An Environmental History of the ‘Second Conquest’: Agricultural Export Boom and Landscape-Making in Latin America, ca.1850-1930</p><p>Chapter 6. Extractivism: The Port-a-cathed Veins of Guatemala</p><p>Chapter 7. Environmental Colonialism and Neocolonialism in Latin America</p><p>Chapter 8. Water scarcity in Latin America</p><p>Part III Latin American Environmental Issues in Political-Economic Context</p><p>Chapter 9. The Political Economy of the Environment in Latin America</p><p>Chapter 10. Ecological debt and extractivism</p><p>Chapter 11. Trajectories of adaptation to climate change in Latin American cities: Climate justice blind spots</p><p>Chapter 12. Environmental disasters and critical politics</p><p>Chapter 13. Latin America in the Chemical Vortex of Agrarian Capitalism</p><p>Chapter 14. Resource Radicalisms</p><p>Chapter 15. The fruits of labor or the fruits of nature? Towards a political ecology of labor in Central America</p><p>Chapter 16. Transnationals, Dependent Development and the Environment in Latin America in the 21st Century</p><p>Chapter 17. Challenging the logic of ‘the open veins’? The geography of resource rents distribution in Peru and Bolivia</p><p>Part IV: Environmental Struggles and Resistance</p><p>Chapter 18. Resistance of women from "sacrifice zones" to extractivism in Chile. A framework for rethinking a feminist political ecology</p><p>Chapter 19. Environmental conflicts and violence in Latin America: Experiences from Peru</p><p>Chapter 20. Quilombos and the Fight Against Racism in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic</p><p>Chapter 21. The "Greening" by Sustainable Development: Stretching Biopiracy</p><p>Chapter 22. Territorialization through the Milpa: Zapatismo and Indigenous Autonomy</p><p>Chapter 23. Indigenous Autonomies as Alternative Horizons in Latin America: Societal movements and other territorialities in Bolivia and Mexico</p><p>Chapter 24. Land occupations and land reform in Brazil</p><p>Chapter 25. From Chico Mendes to Berta Cáceres: responses to the murders of environmental defenders</p><p>Part V: Environmental Disputes and Policies</p><p>Chapter 26. Latin America's Approach in the International Environmental Debate. From Stockholm 72 to Rio + 20. Between "eco-development" and "sustainable development"</p><p>Chapter 27. Degrowth and Buen Vivir: perspectives for a great transformation</p><p>Chapter 28. Social Cartographies in Latin America</p><p>Chapter 29. Rights of Nature and Specialization in Jurisprudence: Moving Forward to Better Protect Our Environment?</p><p>Chapter 30. How tenure reform processes can lead to community-based resource management? Experiences from Latin America</p><p>Chapter 31. Environmental Policy and Institutional Change: The Consequences of Mobilization</p><p>Part VI: Toward Oppression-Free Futures</p><p>Chapter 32. Feminist thought and environmental defense in Latin America</p><p>Chapter 33. Decolonising time through communalising spatial practices</p><p>Chapter 34. Environmental Thought in Movement: Territory, Ecologisms, and Liberation in Latin America</p><p>Chapter 35. Agroecology and Food Sovereignty in the Caribbean: Insights from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Sint Maarten</p><p>Chapter 36. Re-existance struggles and socio-ecological alternatives for reproduction of dignified and sustainable life in territories affected by the extractivist offensive in Latin America</p><p>Chapter 37. The Dimensions of Life: Environment, Subject, and Amerindian Thought</p><p>Chapter 38. Environmental Justice Movements as Movements for Life and Decolonization: Experiences from Puerto Rico</p><p>Chapter 39. Community Contributions to a Just Energy Transition</p><p>Index</p>