The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

This Element focuses on environmental protection, as both government good and service, that has become part of distributive politics.

Isabella Alcañiz (Author), Ricardo A. Gutiérrez (Author)

9781009263436, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 August 2022

75 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.13 kg

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.

1. Introduction
2. The social mobilization perspective in Latin America and the Caribbean
3. The state perspective in Latin America and the Caribbean
4. A new distributive research agenda for Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Environmental management [RNF], Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations [RNB], The environment [RN]