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This book examines cooperation on shared environmental concerns across national boundaries in the Southern Cone region of South America, specifically Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It covers regional environmental cooperation in the Southern Cone since the early 1990s. By using the marginalised issues of ecological and socio-environmental concerns as an analytical lens, the author makes a significant contribution to the study of regional cooperation in Latin America. Her book also presents the first detailed study of how environmental cooperation across national boundaries takes place in a region of the South, and thus fills a lacuna in global environmental governance. This innovative work is geared toward students and scholars of environmental politics, regional cooperation in Latin America, and transboundary environmental governance.

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Author:   Karen M. Siegel
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Weight:   3.594kg
ISBN:  

9781137558732

ISBN 10:   1137558733
Pages:   179
Publication Date:   01 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction The need to look beyond the global North Regional environmental cooperation in the Southern Cone of South America Components, drivers and processes of cooperation Outline of the book  Chapter 2: From neo-liberalism to neo-extractivism The 1990s: Opening up space for regional environmental cooperation while keeping it in the margins Reinforcing the marginality of socio-environmental concerns: The neo-extractivist development model Chapter 3: From “open” to “post-hegemonic” regionalism The declining relevance of Mercosur for regional environmental cooperation Neo-extractivism moving into the regional sphere  Chapter 4: Regional environmental cooperation in the La Plata river basin The La Plata basin regime Environmental cooperation in the La Plata basin Limitations, contestati ons and signs of marginality Chapter 5: Species protection at the regional level: the Convention on Migratory Species in the Southern Cone             The Convention on Migratory Species             Drivers for regional cooperation in the framework of the CMS             Sources of strength and limitations Chapter 6: Conclusion Unequal influence in the process leading to regional environmental cooperation Regional integration and regional environmental cooperation: two separate processes The marginality of regional environmental cooperation

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Karen M. Siegel is Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has been a visiting researcher at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Argentina and she is an elected member of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Committee as well as a Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project.

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