Juliet Pinto,Paola Prado,J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz's Environmental News in South America: Conflict, Crisis and PDF

By Juliet Pinto,Paola Prado,J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz

ISBN-10: 113747498X

ISBN-13: 9781137474988

Combining views from media stories and political ecology, this booklet analyses socially developed information concerning 3 environmental conflicts in South the United States. In fresh a long time, South American political administrations have tied nationwide economies to neo-extractive improvement concepts, developing not just vulnerabilities to worldwide commodity growth and bust pricing cycles, but in addition to clash relating to environmental and cultural degradation from extraction actions. Environmental contestations between indigenous peoples, environmental and social NGOs, country actors, and extraction industries obtain media realization, yet how those disputes are lined has implications for understandings of media functionality in democratizing countries. The authors research 3 case reviews of environmental contestation in a sector that's concurrently liable to the results of weather switch, and but has turn into once more depending on commodity exportation to industrializing and industrialized countries for financial gain and social improvement strategies. 

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