ENGOV - Environmental Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean

2011-2015

 

 

"Environmental Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean : Developing Frameworks for Sustainable and Equitable Natural Resource Use" (ENGOV) is a collaborative research project funded by the European Commission. ENGOV focusses on the obstacles and possibilities for sustainable production systems that can generate both economic development and a more equitable knowledge input and distribution of benefits across ethnic, socioeconomic and gender lines in order to decrease poverty, exclusion, and environmental degradation in Latin America.
The project’s central objective is to understand how environmental governance is shaped in Latin America and to develop a new analytical framework for environmental governance in the region.

In order to develop "Latin American perspectives", the project is built up around two main aspects of environmental governance in the region :

1) the social context in which environmental governance is shaped, including historical, structural, institutional and information backgrounds ; and

2) production systems and challenges to environmental justice The nine main themes of the research, all directed by one of the partner institutions, are :

  • Historicising unequal resource distribution
  • Shifting elites and institutions in environmental governance
  • Strategic actors and responsible consumption
  • Building and exchanging knowledges on natural resources
  • Analysing poverty and sustainable development
  • Resource extraction conflicts compared
  • Local solutions towards environmental justice
  • Mitigation and adaptation to climate change
  • Crossing boundaries in environmental governance

The project is managed by the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA)
www.cedla.uva.nl

Coordinator : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.

Project funding : European Commission

ART-Dev members involved : Ludivine Eloy (CR1 CNRS)

Team :

  • Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
    Coordinator : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.
    www.clacso.org.ar
  • Institut de Ciència y Tecnología Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)
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    www.icta.uab.cat
  • Institute de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) Coordinator : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.
    www.ird.fr
  • Centre for Development and the Environment - University of Oslo (SUM-UiO) Coordinator : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.
    www.sum.uio.no
  • Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Universidade de Brasília (CDS-UnB) Coordinator : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. and Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.
    www.unbcds.pro.br/pub
  • Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco (UAM-Xoc) Coordinator : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.
    www.xoc.uam.mx
  • Instituto de Estudios Avanzados − Universidad de Santiago de Chile (IDEA-USACH) Coordinator : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.
    idea.usach.cl
  • Gino Germani Research Institute (IIGG) Coordinator : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.
    iigg.sociales.uba.ar
  • Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Quito (UASB-SQ) Coordinator : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.
    www.uasb.edu.ec
  • Martinez-Alier, J., Kallis, G., Veuthey, S., Walter, M. and Temper, L. (2011) “Social Metabolism, Ecological Distribution Conflicts and Valuation Languages”, Ecological Economics 70(2) : 153-158 [ICTA]
  • Toni, F. & I.A.R. Ferreira (2011) “De quem é o carbono ? Descentralização recentralização e a implementação do REDD+ no Brazil”, in S. Sauer& W. Almeida (Orgs.) Terras e Territórios na Amazônia : Demandas, Desafios e Perspectivas, Brasília, Editora UnB [CDS]
  • Hogenboom, Barbara, “Depoliticized and Repoliticized Minerals in Latin America”, Journal of Developing Societies June 2012 28 : 133-158, Special Issue : The New Politics of Mineral Extraction in Latin America, Vol. 28, No. 2, June 2012, Guest editor : Barbara Hogenboom see also (click) [CEDLA]
  • Muradian, Roldan, Mariana Walter, Joan Martinez-Alier, "Hegemonic transitions and global shifts in social metabolism : Implications for resource-rich countries". Introduction to the special section, Global Environmental Change, Available online, ISSN 0959-3780. (click) [ICTA]
  • Baud, Michiel, Fabio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom (2011) “Environmental Governance in Latin America : Towards an Integrative Research Agenda” (Exploraciones/Explorations), European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 90, April 2011 p. 79-88. Portuguese version (click). English version
  • Urkidi, Leire, and Mariana Walter (2011) “Dimensions of environmental justice in anti-gold mining movements in Latin America”, Geoforum 42 p. 683–695 (click)
  • Perez Manrique, P., Brun, J., Gonzalez-Martinez, A.C., Walter, M., Martinez-Alier, J., (2012). The Biophysical Performance of Argentina (1970–2009). Accepted for publication in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
  • Montserrat, M.M., Ortega Cerdà, M., Villegas, E.M., Ramos Martín, J., 2011. Conflictos socio-ambientales de la acuicultura del camarón en Centroamérica. Un análisis desde la justicia ambiental. Fundación Barcelona. (click)
  • Eloy, L., Coudel, E. & Toni, F. (eds.). 2013. Dossiê : Pagamentos por Serviços Ambientais no Brasil, Brasilia : Sustentabilidade em Debate, 4(1).
  • Eloy, L., Coudel, E. & Toni, F. 2013.Implementando Pagamentos por Serviços Ambientais no Brasil : caminhos para uma reflexão crítica. Sustentabilidade em Debate, 4, 21-41.

Coordinator : Barbara Hogenboom 
www.cedla.uva.nl

Ludivine Eloy Costa Pereira
CNRS UMR Art-Dev 5281
Université Montpellier 3, Site Saint-Charles - Rue Henri Serre
34090 Montpellier
Tél. : +33(0)4.11.75.71.00
http://art-dev.cnrs.fr/

Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável / Universidade de Brasilia 
Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro - Gleba A, Bloco C - Av. L3 Norte, Asa Norte - Brasília-DF, CEP : 70.904-970
Telefones : 55(61) 3107-6001
http://www.unb.br/sobre/cds