Book Details

Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-1-4020-3774-0

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This book is a non-technical interdisciplinary collection of 12 essays, each of which uses natural or social science methods. The essays analyze a representative set of environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. They consider problems at international, regional, national, and local levels and examine current and historical environmental policy. The essays are organized according to theme and approach into five parts: -conservation challenges; -national policies, local communities, and rural development; -market mechanisms for protecting public goods; -public participation and environmental justice; -the effects of development policies on the environment. Contributors are researchers from Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the United States


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Caribbean, Latin America, Policy, biodiversity, development, ecology, environment, environmental protection, pollution