Latin America plays an important international role with regard to environmental governance. Knowledge generated by empirical and theoretical studies on environmental challenges can support the renewed efforts in the region ...

This paper studies the biophysical features of the Argentinean economy using the approach of social metabolism. A Material Flow Analysis (MFA) of this economy was conducted for the period 1970-2009.

The present article examines two Latin American gold mining conflicts, one in the city of Esquel (Patagonia in Argentina) and the other in Pascua-Lama (Chilean border with Argentina). We identify the emergence and deployment ...

In this first chapter, we give an introduction on small-scale gold mining in the Amazon. There are some general issues that we consider important to deal with, before diving into the country cases. First, we give an ...

Uno de los temas que mayor proyección tiene en el debate político global y en América Latina, a la luz del Cambio Climático, el agotamiento de las fuentes convencionales del petróleo y la crisis energética, es la interacción ...

A América Latina exerce um papel internacional importante em relação à governança ambiental. O conhecimento gerado por estudos empíricos e teóricos sobre os desafios ambientais fundamenta os esforços renovados na região ...

El trabajo aborda la difícil relación entre el ámbito académico y de producción de conocimiento por un lado y los tomadores de decisión y las políticas públicas por otro. Se centra en la dimensión de cuidado del ambiente ...

Desde el año 2003, se ha producido en Argentina un aumento en la conflictividad social de los proyectos mineros. El artículo analiza el primer conflicto ambiental minero que instala en la agenda pública argentina el debate ...

This paper seeks to outline key concepts and hypotheses for the study of elites in environmental governance in Latin America. It starts with pointing to an alleged “black boxing” of elites in most studies of environmental ...

El Salvador is often viewed as the quintessence of a Latin American oligarchic state, in which a small group of families controlled the agro-export economy and the state, in shifting alliances with the military. This model ...