Environmental crisis in Latin America. Colombia; dilemmas and solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Sergio Mauricio Páez Arenas
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Environmental Crisis

scholarly journals POWER-KNOWLEDGE RELATIONS IN THE FIELD OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
ENRIQUE LEFF
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Open Dialogue

Abstract The current environmental crisis calls for thinking about the state of the world: the thermodynamic-ecological and symbolic-cultural conditions of organic and human life on the planet. In this regard, it stresses the need to realize the unawareness and life’s unsustainability that humanity has created. In this text I discuss and take a stand about some of the concepts and founding and constitutive research lines of political ecology. In this way I pretend to open dialogue by placing in context some of the principles, ideas, and founding viewpoints of political ecology in Latin America and contrasting them with those from the English-speaking school of thought. I intend not only to establish a political socio-geography, but to question the epistemic core of political ecology, and to stimulate a more cosmopolitan critical thinking in order to be able to face the hegemonic powers that lead the world into social and environmental decay

The Environmental Crisis and the Tasks of History in Latin America

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Castro Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Environmental Crisis

scholarly journals Extraterritorial Investments, Environmental Crisis, and Collective Action in Latin America

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 32-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Ospina Peralta ◽  
Anthony Bebbington ◽  
Patric Hollenstein ◽  
Ilana Nussbaum ◽  
Eduardo Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Environmental Crisis

The Environmental Crisis in Latin America

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Castro H.
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
History Of ◽  
Peasant Resistance ◽  
Modes Of Interaction

An environmental crisis is neither the result of a single factor nor of a combination of such. On the contrary, it results from a complex combination of modes of interaction between natural and social systems, operating for periods in time and space. This holds true for the environmental crisis in Latin America, understood within the context of the first global environmental crisis in the history of our species. The combination of facts and processes with respect to the crisis in Latin America is associated with three distinct and interdependent historical periods: (1) The first period, one of long duration, marks the interaction with the natural world of the first humans to occupy the Americas and encompasses a timespan of at least 15,000 years before the European conquest of 1500–1550. (2) The second period, one of medium duration, corresponds to European control of the region between the 16th and 19th centuries, a timespan that witnessed the creation of tributary societies grounded in noncapitalist forms of organization, such as the indigenous commune, feudal primogeniture, and the great ecclesiastical properties, which were characteristics of peripheral economies that existed within the wider framework of the emerging modern global economic system. (3) The third period, one of shorter duration, extended from 1870 to 1970 during which capitalist forms of relationships between social systems and natural systems in the region developed. This period was succeeded, beginning about 1980, by decades of transition and crisis, a process that is still ongoing. In this transition, old and unresolved conflicts reemerge in a new context, which combines indigenous and peasant resistance to incorporation into a market economy with the fight of urban dwellers for access to the basic environmental conditions for life, such as safe drinking water, waste disposal, energy, and clean air. In this scenario, a culture of nature is taking shape, which combines general democratic demands with values and visions from indigenous and African American cultures and those of a middle-class intellectuality increasingly linked to global environmentalism. This culture faces state policies often associated with the interests of transnational corporations and complex negotiation processes for agreements on global environmental problems. In this process, the actions of the past have led to the emergence of a great diversity of development options, all of which are centered in one basic fact: that, in Latin America as elsewhere around the word, if we want a different environment we need to create different societies.

scholarly journals Understanding decoupling: Untruthful company crisis communication in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Orlando E. Contreras-Pacheco ◽  
Cyrlene Claasen ◽  
Fernando J. Garrigós-Simón
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Crisis Scenarios

Purpose: This work analyzes how decoupling is used by offending companies in response to environmental crisis incidents in the Latin American context. Ethical implications and its links to legitimacy are considered.Design/methodology/approach: The research relies on a multi-case study approach, where four major environmental incidents involving four natural resource companies in Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina are analyzed. By examining public sources, the crisis communication processes performed by these companies are studied in order to allow for the linking of theory and practice.Findings: Results obtained suggest that, in an attempt to defend their legitimacy, companies deliberately conveyed untruthful messages and decoupled their communication in crisis from reality, resulting in ethical concerns for the practice of both crisis management and crisis communication.Research limitations/implications: By emphasizing the link between legitimacy and communication in crisis scenarios, the study illustrates how decoupling (i.e., untruthful communication practices) can be performed as a crisis management strategy. However, due the constraints of case studies, it is acknowledged that the paper has limitations for generalization.Originality/value: This work identifies four different decoupling-based crisis communication strategies performed by companies, and the way these are accompanied with secondary strategies. Furthermore, by focusing on Latin America, the study reflects the potential impact that the geographical context may have on the company’s crisis communication strategy and ultimately its legitimacy.

scholarly journals May Circular Economy make sustainability strategies financially rewarding in Latin America?

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (70) ◽  
pp. e1011489
Author(s):  
Carlos Scheel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Latin America ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Citizen Education ◽  
Linear Chains ◽  
Sustainability Strategies

Is it possible to solve the tremendous economic-environmental policy challenges imposed on developing countries' industries and governments due to the intense demands by international organizations to restrain the crisis of global warming? Let us look at some initiatives proposed to address the environmental crisis: By means of greenwashing the conventional linear chains of the most polluting industries. Through public policies and strict legislation, with exorbitant fines. Through extreme citizen education efforts. Through innovative technologies. The answer is none of the above. Even with the technological advancements and the growth of markets, and the governments' ambitious long-term commitments, the likelihood of adherence thereto is almost nil, mainly for developing countries, if something drastic, disruptive and comprehensive is not carried out.

Solar-Powered Cinema and Sustainable Projections

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-64
Author(s):  
Stefania Haritou
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Screening System ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Film Exhibition ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Solar Powered

Drawing on ecomedia studies, this chapter sheds light on Ecocinema, an itinerant project of film exhibition that is powered by solar energy. This ecological initiative, with origins in the Netherlands and the project Solar Cinema, started operating in 2008 in Uruguay and soon after in other countries of Latin America. By using vans with solar panels mounted to their rooftops, which operate a 100 per cent solar-powered screening system, Ecocinema travels to places and sites where cinema does not exist. Through the presentation of this project, this chapter looks at the genealogy of itinerant cinemas in Latin America and traces the themes related to alternate models of exhibition. Providing an alternative of green practices, within an industry whose processes of production, distribution, and exhibition are largely ecologically unsustainable, Ecocinema seeks to reach sustainability and moreover to raise awareness about the environmental crisis and educate about ecological means of energy production and consumption. Furthermore, the chapter reflects on the practice of cinema projection and its inextricable relationship with light, in the case of solar-powered projection with sunlight. It concludes by contemplating environmental politics and justice within the context of Latin America and the possibilities of greening cinema practices and responding creatively to the emerging contemporary ecological problems.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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