Overview
- 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
- Discusses different aspects of the environment-development controversies, with a focus on the Amazon region, including resource extraction, violence against peasants and indigenous peoples, agricultural frontiers, water management, land-based disputes and anthropogenic climate change
- Contributing authors explore policy recommendations and discuss effective practical tools for determining the values different people hold for ecosystem services and territorial resources
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Introduction
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Understanding the Environment and Development Nexus
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The Lived Environment and Development of the Amazon Region
Keywords
- environment and development
- sustainable development
- Food-Water-Land-Ecosystems Nexus Framework
- sustainable environmental management
- healthy cities
- disaster risk reduction
- environmental sustainability
- socio-ecological risk
- environmental degradation
- water scarcity
- biodiversity loss
- ecosystem services
- Environmental Geography
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environment and Development
Book Subtitle: Challenges, Policies and Practices
Editors: Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55416-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55415-6Published: 05 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55418-7Published: 06 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55416-3Published: 04 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 514
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Geography, general, Environmental Geography, Environment, general, Development Studies