Since colonial times the position of the social, political and economic elites in Latin America has been intimately connected to their control over natural reso

Explains how political, social, and economic factors have turned one of the richest continents in terms of natural resources into one of the poorest environment

Politics Latin America examines the role of Latin America in the world and its importance to the study of politics with particular emphasis on the institutions

Human development and the momentous forces of globalization confront the natural world in Latin America and the Caribbean with unprecedented challenges that are

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-in

The environmental movement is having a marked impact on national and international politics. This book examines the dominant ethics, attitudes, and moral values

The first comprehensive study to explain the workings of transgovernmental environmental and nuclear cooperation across the so-called 'Global South'.

Although the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to address global climate change, has been regarded by many as an unsuccessful treaty both politically a

Includes peer-reviewed original research in contemporary Latin American politics, economics, and society; U.S.-Latin American relations; and foreign policy of t

This book examines cooperation on shared environmental concerns across national boundaries in the Southern Cone region of South America, specifically Argentina,