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| Title: | Grassroots Struggles for Sustainability in Central America
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| Author: | Lynn R Horton |
| ISBN: | 0870818724 : 9780870818721 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 213 |
| Weight: | .456 Kg. |
| Published: | University Press of Colorado - June 2007 |
| List Price: | 36.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Central America: Sustainability |
Drawing on the testimony of leaders and residents of three communities in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, Horton explores grassroots assumptions, values, and practices of sustainable development and, in particular, the ways in which they overlap with or challenge international financial institutions' discourse of sustainability. With a comparative, empirical approach, Horton also analyses dominant practices linked to sustainable development -- neoliberal reforms, project interventions, and environmental protection. She reveals how these practices support or undermine economic, cultural, and political opportunities for the rural and indigenous poor and impact these communities' advancement of their own visions of sustainability. Finally, the author explores processes of empowerment that enable communities to articulate and put into practice local visions of sustainability, which contribute toward broader social and structural transformations. GRASSROOTS STRUGGLES FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN CENTRAL AMERICA will interest sociologists, anthropologists, and others who study the theory and practice of sustainable development.
Contested Visions of Sustainability; Poverty and Forests: Development and (Dis)empowerment in Central America; "All the Land Belongs to Foreigners": Ecotourism and Sustainability; "Nature That Gives Them Life": Grassroots Sustainability on the Osa Peninsula; "Right Behind Him Are the Campesinos with Axes": Developing the Estero Real; "He Has Been Taught Not to Be Afraid": Grassroots Sustainability in Miraflores; "Before, There Were Only Kunas": The Struggle for the Comarca; "There Are No Poor People Here": Grassroots Sustainability in Ipetí; Bringing the Case Studies Together; Conclusion; Index.
