Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador
The environmental sphere is singular in its indirect and direct vulnerability to nearly every form of human activity and thought: development theory, social inequalities, global climate change, urban/rural, and human geography. Development and conservation have inhabited the global public arena for the past 15 to 20 years, but the specific forms in how it has changed local territorial occupation has recently entered into debate. By focusing on the dynamics found in local governance and local environmental governance spaces a key pattern arose; the act of using local, and natural resources, as a platform for national energy agendas. Thus, a powerful trend has developed in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Baños de Agua Santa Canton involving the physical and social conversion of natural landscapes into hydroenergetic frontiers. There have been numerous debates about how exactly environmental and conservationist paradigms are formed. Using a community and municipality as the focus of a case study I conducted research on how the specific relationship between local governance structures affect environmental dynamics in Baños de Agua Santa located on Tungurahua province. Environmental space, due to the need to reconcile often conflicting interests would be suitable to put the governance test, trying to motivate a real effort to avoid expressions of interest such as these that prevent the fulfillment of environmental objectives required by the government and society.
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| Format: | masterThesis biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Quito : FLACSO Sede Ecuador
2013-02-05T19:55:19Z
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| Subjects: | MEDIO AMBIENTE, POLÍTICA PÚBLICA, INEQUIDAD SOCIAL, CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO, RECURSOS NATURALES, CONSERVACIÓN, SUSTENITABILIDAD, GOBERNABILIDAD AMBIENTAL, SOCIEDAD, ECOTURISMO, REPRESAS HIDROELÉCTRICAS, NEOLIBERALISMO, CANTÓN BAÑOS DE AGUA SANTA (ECUADOR), PROVINCIA DE TUNGURAHUA (ECUADOR), ECUADOR, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10469/4735 |
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