This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political
ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the …

Las políticas de liberalización de mercados en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) a inicios de
los noventa contribuyeron a conservar su rol histórico en la división internacional del trabajo …

Mega-hydraulic projects tend to produce severe social and environmental impacts, with
burdens and benefits unevenly distributed among different social groups, regions, and …

We examine the social resistance against large dams as environmental justice movements
in four case studies-the Sardar Sarovar Project from India, the Hidrosogamoso from …

La ecología política, entendida como un campo de análisis social y político de los
problemas ambientales, cobra relevancia con los cambios asociados a la mundialización …

This paper examines how utopian river planning has arisen in Colombia and Spain since
the late nineteenth century. Specifically, the paper contributes to understanding how …

Controversies around large-scale development projects offer many cases and insights
which may be analyzed through the lenses of corporate social (ir) responsibility (CSIR) and …

Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) is not only a prominent, globally promoted policy to
foster nature conservation, but also increasingly propagated as an innovative and self …

Environmental offsets are proposed as a solution to counterbalance the inherent conflict
between extractive development and environmental protection. However, with the …

Abstract The Magdalena River, Colombia's main river backbone, features multiple tensions
and socio-environmental conflicts. They manifest themselves in the river's ecological …