Environment and Development: Challenges, Policies and Practices

✍ Scribed by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 518
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of emerging challenges facing different social groups, policy-makers and the international community related to economic growth, social development and environmental change, social inclusion and regional development. The book undertakes a critical assessment of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory approaches and impacts of social and economic policies whilst widening the discussion on the interface between the expansion of the socio-environmental demands, equity and justice. These are crucial challenges, of great importance today and of equal relevance to the Global North and South.
The book explores one of the main contradictions of development, the simplification of assessments and narrow consideration of alternatives. Taking this dilemma as its departure point, it goes on to examine the justification, trends and limitations of Western-based development and possible alternatives to fundamentally modify the basis and the rationale of the development process. It considers theoretical and lived experiences of development, paying attention to multiple scales, local realities and economic frontiers. Contributing authors explore policy recommendations and discuss effective practical tools for determining the values different people hold for ecosystem services and territorial resources. They cover the monitoring of change in the provision of ecosystem services that might increase the well-being of vulnerable groups as well as strategies to promote innovation and integrated, equitable and sustainable development.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Graphs
List of Tables
Part I: Introduction
1: Environmental Roots of Development Problems
Environment and Development: The Turbulent Journey of Modernity
Theorising the Time-Spaces of Economic Development and Frontier Making
Perspectives of Development, Space and the Environment
Book Structure and Summary of the Chapters
References
Part II: Understanding the Environment and Development Nexus
2: Healthy Cities, Diseasogenic Cities and the Global South
Introduction
A ‘Health Turn’ in Developmentalism
Healthy City Qua Colonialism
Latin America’s Healthy City Pluriverse
Diseasogenic Cities
Gaps in Healthy City Knowledge
Neglected Diseases
Conclusions
References
3: Regenerating the Socio-Ecological Quality of Urban Streams: The Potential of a Social Learning Approach
Introduction
Urban Rivers and Streams in the Global South and Brazil
Social Learning
Social Learning and Collaborative Projects
The Regeneration of an Urban Stream in Lomba do Pinheiro, Porto Alegre, Brazil
The Taquara Stream
A Local Initiative for the Socio-Ecological Regeneration of the Taquara Stream
Results and Discussion
Approach Used in the Initiative
Local Community and Stakeholders’ Engagement and Interaction
Social Learning Practices Within the Leading Group
Lessons from the Taquara Stream Case
Conclusion
References
4: A Systems Analysis Approach to Addressing Contemporary Water Challenges: Management Improvements in Brazil and Beyond
Introduction
A Brief History of Water Resources Development and Systems Models
The Early Era of Systems Analysis Models in Water Management
The Recent Era of Systems Analysis Models in Water Management
Incorporation of Stakeholder Participation in SA Models
Application of SA Models in the Global South
Conclusions: How Could Systems Analysis Contribute Further to Water Management?
References
5: Doce River Large-Scale Environmental Catastrophe: Decision and Policy-Making Outcomes
Introduction
The Doce River
Pre-disaster
The Disaster
Post-Disaster Actions
Environmental Governance in Brazil
The New Governance Framework
The Broken Policy
Final Remarks
References
6: What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up? The Political Dimensions of Climate Change in Brazil, China and Mozambique
Anthropocene and Risk Society in the Climate Change Context
Policy Responses to Climate Change Risks in Brazil, China and Mozambique
Brazilian Strategies in Response to Climate Change
Climate Action in China
The Mozambican Perspective on Climate Change
Three National Experiences: Lessons in Terms of Environment and Development
Conclusions
References
7: Colombia’s Developmental and Socioecological Trajectory and the Mounting Risks Associated with the 2016 Havana Accord
A Country Ravaged by War
Development in Colombia: A Long and Tortuous Road to (No) Peace
The Havana Accord
The Prospects for a Lasting Peace and the Need for Inclusive Development
More Recent Developments
References
8: Cerca del Rio y Lejos del Agua: Water, Autonomy, and Hope in the Ecuadorian Andes
Introduction
Theorising Autonomous Struggles in Latin America
Constructing Autonomy in the Ecuadorian Andes: Water Association Autonomy in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
Building Autonomy in the Wake of the Traditional Hacienda Complex (1964–1982)
Deepening Autonomy Amid Neoliberal Reform and Economic Collapse (1982–2007)
Negotiating Autonomy During the Commodity Boom and State Expansion (2007–2017)
Conclusions and Lessons
References
9: ‘The Best-Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’: Transformative Agency Towards Ecosocialism
The General Crisis of the Twenty-First Century?
The Basis of Ecosocialism and the Focus of This Study
Transformative Agents Within Ecosocialist Discourses
Transformative Agency and Power Resources: A Case Study
Conclusion
References
Part III: The Lived Environment and Development of the Amazon Region
10: The Indigenous Politics of Belonging: Opposing Neo-liberal Extractivism with Ethical Cosmologies
Prologue: Four Parallel Stories
Some Lessons Learned
Epistemological and Ethical Premise
How Many Amazons in Peru?
From Geography of Deception to Ecological Realism
Ethics of Time and Place
Reshaping the Ethical Landscape of Amazonia
References
11: Voiceless Development, Toxic Injustice, Criminal Resistance: A Study of Peruvian Natural Resource Extraction Through the Political Ecology of Voice
The Political Ecology of Voice
Black Gold Amidst the Green: Peru’s Loreto Region
‘A Beggar Sitting on a Bench of Gold’: Peru’s Political Environment and Freedom of Voice
Silencing Through Fear: Petroperu—Community Engagement
Inaccessible and Ignored: Shadow Environmental Citizenship in Peru’s Loreto Region
Conclusion
References
12: Ethnogenesis and Environmentalism in Contemporary Brazilian Amazonia: A Study in Comparative Frontier History
Frontier Waves and Cycles of Ethnogenesis
Historical Processes of Ethnogenesis in the Americas
Ethnogenesis and Environmentalism in the Brazilian Amazonia (1980–2020)
A Powerful Developmentalist Frontier Wave (1964–1985)
The Emergence of Brazilian Socioenvironmentalism (1985–2012)
Indigenous Peoples
Quilombos
Seringueiros, Ribeirinhos and Other Traditional Peoples
The Neodevelopmentalist Frontier Wave (2000–2020)
Conceptual Coda
References
13: Brazilian National Integration Policies and the Amazon: Discourses of Modernisation Between the Past and the Present
Preliminary Considerations
The National Integration Programme
Urbanisation as a Direct Result of Colonisation
Final Considerations
References
14: Unintended Consequences of ‘Development’ in the Amazon: Commercial Aquaculture and Malaria in Mâncio Lima, Brazil
Introduction
The Impact of ‘Development’ Policies in the Brazilian Amazon
Characterisation of the Study Area
Commercial Aquaculture in Mâncio Lima
Possible Interventions
Urbanisation and Malaria Links in the Context of Development and Post-development Studies
Concluding Remarks
References
15: Political Economy of Amazon Development and Hydropower Construction
Introduction
Political Economy and Socio-Culture
Development and Dam Construction in the Amazon
Cultural Politico-Economic Insights: Distribution, Recognition and Resignification
Conclusions
References
16: Water Governance and the Hydrosocial Territory of the Teles Pires River Basin in the Brazilian Amazon
Introduction
Water Governance
Case Study’s Methodological Approach
Brief Comments on the Geographical and Historical Perspective
Assessment and Discussion
Water Policy Implementation and Conflicting Water Demands
Water Use and the Construction of a Hydrosocial Territory
Water Polity and Water Politics: River Basin Committees
Conclusion
References
17: La Via Campesina’s Agroecological Militancy at a Crossroads: New Research Avenues for Amazonian Studies
Introduction and Context
La Via Campesina’s Complex and Contradictory Effects on Ecological Transitions
La Via Campesina in the Amazon
Methodological Considerations
Avenues for Future Research
Conclusions
References
18: Oxford Letter for the Amazon
Index