Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Environment and Society in Contemporary Latin America -- Part I Setting the Stage -- 1 Origins and Perspectives of Latin American Environmentalism -- 2 Social Metabolism and Conflicts over Extractivism -- 3 Indigenous Knowledge in Mexico: Between Environmentalism and Rural Development -- Part II New Politics of Natural Resources -- 4 The Government of Nature: Post-Neoliberal Environmental Governance in Bolivia and Ecuador -- 5 Changing Elites, Institutions and Environmental Governance -- 6 Water-Energy-Mining and Sustainable Consumption: Views of South American Strategic Actors -- 7 Overcoming Poverty Through Sustainable Development -- Part III New Projects of Environmental Governance -- 8 Forest Governance in Latin America: Strategies for Implementing REDD -- 9 Rights, Pressures and Conservation in Forest Regions of Mexico -- 10 Local Solutions for Environmental Justice -- 11 Community Consultations: Local Responses to Large-Scale Mining in Latin America -- Afterword: From Sustainable Development to Environmental Governance -- Index.

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