Environment and Development

This book will provide 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. The book will undertake a critical assessment of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory approaches and impacts of social and economic policies whilst widening the discussion on the interface between the expansion of the socio-environmental demands, equity and justice. These are crucial challenges, of great importance today and of equal relevance to the Global North and South. The world is increasingly interconnected, with growing rates of production and trade, but also with serious levels of inequality, environmental degradation and mounting socio-ecological risks (for instance, due to climate change, soil erosion, water scarcity, biodiversity loss and social inequality). There are many problems associated with the usual focus on development, economic growth and the adoption of more intensive technologies and globalized markets. One of the main contradictions of development, including the limitations of many examples of supposedly sustainable responses, is the simplification of assessments and narrow consideration of alternatives. Taking those dilemmas as its departure point, the book will examine the justification, the trends and limitations of Western-based development and possible alternatives to fundamentally modify the basis and the rationale of the development process. It will consider theoretical and lived experiences of development, paying attention to multiple scales, local realities and economic frontiers. Contributing authors will explore policy recommendations and discuss effective practical tools for determining the values different people hold for ecosystem services and territorial resources, for monitoring change in the provision ofecosystem services that might increase the well-being of vulnerable groups and strategies to promote innovation and integrated, equitable and sustainable development. Antonio Ioris' research focuses primarily on the political dimension of the interconnections and interdependencies between society and the rest of nature. Most of his current research is related to social and environmental justice, the multiple obstacles faced by marginalised groups and creative reactions at different geographical scales. The work is intended to have both academic and more-than-academic relevance and is focused on socionatural processes, on the political economy of development and environmental regulation, and on governance and politics.

Auteur
Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is Reader at Cardiff University, UK. Much of his current research is related to social and environmental justice, the multiple obstacles faced by marginalised groups and creative reactions at different geographical scales. The work is intended to have both academic and practical relevance and is focused on socionatural processes, on the political economy of development and environmental regulation, and on governance and politics

Résumé
This book provides 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. The book undertakes a critical assessment of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory approaches and impacts of social and economic policies whilst widening the discussion on the interface between the expansion of the socio-environmental demands, equity and justice. These are crucial challenges, of great importance today and of equal relevance to the Global North and South.
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.

Contenu

Part I Introduction.- 1 Environmental Roots of Development Problems.- Part II Understanding the Environment and Development Nexus.- 2 Healthy Cities, Diseasogenic Cities and the Global South.- 3 Regenerating the Socio-Ecological Quality of Urban Streams: The Potential of a Social Learning Approach.- 4 A Systems Analysis Approach to Addressing Contemporary Water Challenges: Management Improvements in Brazil and Beyond.- 5 Doce River Large-Scale Environmental Catastrophe: Decision and Policy-Making Outcomes.- 6 What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up? The Political Dimensions of Climate Change in Brazil, China and Mozambique.- 7 Colombia's Developmental and Socioecological Trajectory and the Mounting Risks Associated with the 2016 Havana Accord.- 8 Cerca del Rio y Lejos del Agua: Water, Autonomy, and Hope in the Ecuadorian Andes.- 9 'The Best-Laid Schemes o' Mice an' Men': Transformative Agency Towards Ecosocialism.- Part III The Lived Environment and Development of the Amazon Region.- 10 The Indigenous Politics of Belonging: Opposing Neoliberal Extractivism with Ethical Cosmologies.- 11 Voiceless Development, Toxic Injustice, Criminal Resistance: A Study of Peruvian Natural Resource Extraction Through the Political Ecology of Voice.- 12 Ethnogenesis and Environmentalism in Contemporary Brazilian Amazonia: A Study in Comparative Frontier History.- 13 Brazilian National Integration Policies and the Amazon: Discourses of Modernisation Between the Past and the Present.- 14 Unintended Consequences of 'Development' in the Amazon: Commercial Aquaculture and Malaria in Mâncio Lima, Brazil.- 15 Political Economy of Amazon Development and Hydropower Construction.- 16 Water Governance and the Hydrosocial Territory of the Teles Pires River Basin in the Brazilian Amazon.- 17 La Via Campesina's Agroecological Militancy at a Crossroads: New Research Avenues for Amazonian Studies.- 18 Oxford Letter for the Amazon.