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Economic development and environmental protection in Latin America

First in a series of short books designed to promote enhanced discussion and sharpened analysis of current public policy issues in Latin America, this collection of essays addresses the need to reconcile economic growth and environmental protection. The contributors - among them scholars, government officials and development practitioners - provide a theoretical and practical discussion of sustainable development practices, explore alternatives to deforestation, consider the pros and cons of debt-for-nature swaps and look at the air pollution problems facing urban areas, specially Mexico City. The overall aim of the book is to present new insights into the numerous problems, and potential solutions, confronting Latin America in the 1990s.

Economic development and environmental protection in Latin America

First in a series of short books designed to promote enhanced discussion and sharpened analysis of current public policy issues in Latin America, this collection of essays addresses the need to reconcile economic growth and environmental protection. The contributors - among them scholars, government officials and development practitioners - provide a theoretical and practical discussion of sustainable development practices, explore alternatives to deforestation, consider the pros and cons of debt-for-nature swaps and look at the air pollution problems facing urban areas, specially Mexico City. The overall aim of the book is to present new insights into the numerous problems, and potential solutions, confronting Latin America in the 1990s.

The distributive politics of environmental protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

The study of environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean expands as conflicts stemming from the deterioration of the natural world increase. Yet this scholarship has not generated a broad research agenda similar to the ones that emerged around other key political phenomena. This Element seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrate the existing, disparate literatures. Drawing from distributive politics, this Element asks who benefits from the appropriation and pollution of the environment, who pays the costs of climate change and environmental degradation, and who gains from the allocation of state protections.

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