Browsing by Subject "Latin America"
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Acciones Ambientales para el Mejoramiento del Medio Ambiente en las Comunidades Rurales [Environmental Actions for Improving the Environment of Rural Communities]
(1998)This guide is for rural communities in Latin America and for those who work with them. It provides clear, step-by-step instructions for organizing a community environmental group, conducting participatory planning exercises ... -
Climate Change and Coffee Communities in Latin America
(2015-04-24)Coffee production is an essential component of the rural economy and smallholder livelihoods in countries throughout Latin America. Coffee producers and the global coffee supply have been threatened by the effects of climate ... -
Coffee and Civil War: The Cash Crop That Built the Foundations for the Mass Slaughter of Mayans during the Guatemalan Civil War
(2017-05-08)This thesis explores the connections between coffee production and genocide in Guatemala. This thesis centers its analysis in the 19th and 20th centuries when coffee was Guatemala’s main cash crop. Coffee became Guatemala’s ... -
Contesting market-based conservation: Payments for ecosystem services as a surface of engagement for rural social movements in Mexico
(Human Geography: a new radical journal, 2013)The Mexican National Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, which provide financial incentives for rural landholders to conserve forest, were originally designed under the logic of market-based conservation. Based ... -
Democracy and Labor Market Outsiders: The Political Consequences of Economic Informality
(2015)This dissertation addresses the effect of informality on three key dimensions: social policypreferences, partisan attachments, and citizen-politician linkages. Many Latin Americanlabor markets have large informal sectors ... -
Examining Trends in Birth Location and Birth Attendance Among Women in the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve
(2018)Despite global improvements in maternal mortality rates, preventable maternal deaths are still an issue for many populations. Indigenous populations, especially those in Latin America, often do not utilize delivery services ... -
Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel
(2020)My dissertation, “Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel”, studies recent developments in the Latin American novel to better understand the relation between economics and time in ... -
Fisheries Catch Shares Management in Argentina: Institutional Design, Economic Efficiency, and Social Outcomes
(2019)While property rights-based management is theoretically purported enhance economic efficiency in fisheries by reducing over-capitalization and extending fishing seasons, the social and economic empirical outcomes are less ... -
Fishing for Food and Fodder: The Transnational Environmental History of Humboldt Current Fisheries in Peru and Chile since 1945
(2011)This dissertation explores the history of industrial fisheries in the Humboldt Current marine ecosystem where workers, scientists, and entrepreneurs transformed Peru and Chile into two of the top five fishing nations after ... -
Getting to Zero in Latin America: Decarbonizing the Building Sector by 2050
(2021-04-21)Looking forward, the decarbonization of the building sector will be particularly important to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement. In Latin America, operational carbon from buildings, which results from the energy needed ... -
Improving environmental and social targeting through adaptive management in Mexico's payments for hydrological services program.
(Conserv Biol, 2014-10)Natural resource managers are often expected to achieve both environmental protection and economic development even when there are fundamental trade-offs between these goals. Adaptive management provides a theoretical structure ... -
Institutions, Innovation, and Grassroots Change: Alternatives to Transnational Governance in the Global South
(2016)Transnational governance has been advanced as a viable option for regulating commodities produced in emerging economies—where incapable or unwilling states may undersupply institutions requisite for overseeing supply chains ... -
“Lies build trust”: Social capital, masculinity, and community-based resource management in a Mexican fishery
(World Development, 2019-11-01)© 2019 Elsevier Ltd This paper relates how fishermen in San Evaristo on Mexico's Baja peninsula employ fabrications to strengthen bonds of trust and navigate the complexities of common pool resource extraction. We argue ... -
STATE OF 101 PROTECTED AREAS IN LATIN AMERICA
(2008-04-25)On-site evaluations of the status of protected areas provide guidance to managers, stakeholders, and decision makers on the development of strategies to address the most critical issues faced by protected areas. In this ... -
Synergies and trade-offs among integrated conservation approaches in Mexico.
(Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2021-01-31)Integrated conservation approaches (ICAs) are employed by governments, communities, and nongovernmental organizations worldwide seeking to achieve outcomes with dual benefits for biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation. ... -
The Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfers for Political Behavior and Human Development
(2015)The Global South, and particularly Latin America, experienced a remarkable expansion in conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in the last fifteen years. Although a large literature examines the effects of CCTs on human ... -
The Electoral Politics of Vulnerability and the Incentives to Cast an Economic Vote
(2007-10-16)The relationship between economic performance and support for the incumbent government varies across voters and electoral contexts. While some of this variation can be explained by factors that make it easier or harder ... -
The Implications of the Global Gag Rule on Family Planning Use in Peru and Bolivia
(2014-12-10)The implementation of the Global Gag Rule in 1984 meant that foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) could not promote or perform abortions in order to maintain their aid from the United States. Although this policy ... -
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela
(2016)We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela, draws on fifteen months of field research accompanying organizers, participating in protests, ...
