Overview
Introduces a range of transdisciplinary approaches to address livelihoods, poverty, and environmental degradation problems
Includes case studies on how global socio-environmental regimes are impacting rural and indigenous producers’ livelihoods and traditions
Reveals the power relations and interactions between multi-level agents that operationalize public policies in rural production systems in Latin America
Provides insights on devising new public policy and policy opportunities
Draws on collaborative work and collective dialogues involving anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, lawyers, biologists, ecologists, agricultural engineers, forest engineers, economists, natural resource administrators, and educators
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Introduction
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Where Different Sources of Knowledge Intersect
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When Culture and Traditions Matter
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The Multiple Roles of Natural Protected Areas
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From Clashes to Agreements: How to Get There?
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About this book
This book presents a range of ethnically diverse case studies from LA, which addresses socio-environmental, educational, and law regimes’ effects using transdisciplinary research approaches in rural, traditional and indigenous production systems. Based on both, the results and insights gained into how producers are resisting and adapting to these regimes, as well as decades of research carried out in LA rural territories by the participating authors, the book puts forward a baseline for devising new public policies that are better suited to the real challenges of livelihoods, poverty, and environmental degradation in LA. These recommendations are rooted in post-development thinking; they promote territorial public policy with social inclusion and a human’s rights approach.
The book draws on over 20 years of research carried out by LA’s academics and their undergraduate and graduate students who have addressed collaborative work, participatory research, and transdisciplinary approaches with rural commons and communities in LA. It features 19 case studies, with contributions from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, and Mexico.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Parra Vázquez has been a Researcher at ECOSUR since 1982. Trained as an agricultural engineer, he holds a Master’s degree in agricultural sciences and a Ph.D. in Economics. His main research interest is in interwoven problems of conservation and development in peasant communities, and addressing these problems from the perspective of participatory action research. His research approach encompasses several aspects of analysis, notably the family, community, territorial, and regional scales. He is a member of ECOSUR’s Research Group for coffee-growing areas in Mexico.
Dr. Bello Baltazar has been a Researcher/Scientist at ECOSUR, Mexico since 1997. Trained as an agronomist, he also holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. Currently, his research interests include: socio-environmental processes of conservation, local territory and territorialities, family and community-based ecotourism, and transdisciplinary approaches addressing the viability and sustainability of small-scale production systems. From 2009 to 2012, he led a transdisciplinary project and a collaboration network on socio-environmental innovation in southern Mexico.
Dr. Araujo’s background is in Ecology (Master’s degree from the University of Campinas, 2007) and she holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Society (2014). She chiefly works as a researcher in the field of management and conservation of natural commons, and as a facilitator of participatory and social processes related to community-based conservation and local development initiatives. She currently holds a research position in the project Unlocking Economic Opportunities to Scale Forest and Landscape Restoration in Brazil, and is a member of Commons Conservation and Management Research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socio-Environmental Regimes and Local Visions
Book Subtitle: Transdisciplinary Experiences in Latin America
Editors: Minerva Arce Ibarra, Manuel Roberto Parra Vázquez, Eduardo Bello Baltazar, Luciana Gomes de Araujo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49767-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49766-8Published: 14 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49769-9Published: 14 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49767-5Published: 13 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 461
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnology, Environmental Management, International Relations, Civil Law, Biological and Physical Anthropology, Environment, general