Table of Contents
TRANSPORT
Chapter 1: THE MANTA–MANAOS PROJECT: NATURE, CAPITAL AND PLUNDER 7
Keywords: Social Metabolism, Material Flows, Transport Infrastructure, Amazon, Local Knowledge, Resource Extraction Conflicts, Chinese Economy, Free Trade Treaties, Languages of Valuation, Commodity Chains, Commodity Frontiers, Mega-Projects
Chapter 2: HIGH SPEED TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE (TAV) IN ITALY 23
Keywords : Transport and Energy, Material Flows, Participative Democracy, Cost Benefit Analysis, Multi Criteria Evaluation, High Speed, NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), Activist Knowledge, Externalities, Weak Sustainability
MINING
Chapter 3: THE MINING ENCLAVE OF THE ―CORDILLERA DEL CÓNDOR 49
Keywords: Open-Pit Mining, Non-Renewable Resources, Biodiversity Hotspot, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Liabilities, Hydroelectric Dams, Canadian Mining Companies, International Conservationism, Commodity Frontiers, Weak Sustainability, ―Accumulation by Dispossession‖, Environmentalism of the Poor
AID AND DISASTERS
Chapter 4: Aid, Social Metabolism and Social Conflict in the Nicobar Islands 79
Keywords: Humanitarian Aid, Complex Disasters, Material and Energy Flows, Working Time, Property Rights, Community Ownership, Subsistence Economy, Natural Disasters
FOREST MANAGEMENT
Chapter 5: PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT IN MENDHA LEKHA, INDIA 92
Keywords: Biomass Economy, Rural Development, Gross Nature Product, Well-Being, GDP Of The Poor, Joint Forest Management, Watershed Management, Social Capital, Property Rights, Consensual Democracy, Community Rights, Inclusive Institutions, Livelihood Security, Needs, Rights-Based Approach
Chapter 6: FORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES IN CAMEROON 108
Keywords: Industrial Logging, Property Rights, Community Forests, Commodity Chains, Ecologically Unequal Exchange, Cost Shifting, Corporate Accountability, Corruption, Wood Certification, Fair Trade, Consumer Blindness, Languages of Valuation, FLEGT-VPA.
WETLANDS AND WATER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 7: LET THEM EAT SUGAR: LIFE AND LIVELIHOOD IN KENYA‘S TANA DELTA 138
Keywords: Wetlands, RAMSAR Convention, Land Grabbing, Irrigation, Pastoralists, Property Rights, Customary Rights, Bio-Fuels, HANPP (Human Appropriation of Net Primary Product), EROI (Energy Returned on Energy Input) Virtual Water, GDP of the Poor, Resilience
Chapter 8: LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND ENVIRONMENT INVESTMENTS IN HIWARE BAZAR, INDIA 152
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Keywords: Environmental Investments, Rural Poverty, Water Governance, Grazing Rights, Collective Decision-Making, Community Resource Management, Water Harvesting, NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act), Institutional Innovations, Property Rights, Virtual Water, Bio-gas, Livelihood Security.
TOURISM AND NATIONAL PARK MANAGEMENT
Chapter 9: NAUTICAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN THE LASTOVO ISLANDS NATURE PARK 169
Keywords: Nautical Tourism, Marine Biodiversity, Depopulation, Landscape Value, Physical Planning, Property Rights, Protected Area Management, Carrying Capacity, Resilience, Local Communities, Public Participation, Willingness To Pay, Economic Instruments For Tourism Management
Chapter 10 : LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND MANAGEMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS IN SERBIA 198
Keywords: National Parks, Dams and Hydroelectricity, Depopulation, Co-Management, Eco-Tourism, Forest Economics, Local Livelihood Opportunities, Ecosystem Services, Krutilla‘s Rule, Cost Benefit Analysis, Cultural Heritage, Trans-boundary Cooperation
PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYTEM SERVICES
Chapter 11: PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (PES) IN INDIA FROM THE BOTTOM-UP226
Keywords: Willingness to Pay, Opportunity Cost, Coasian Bargaining, PES (Payment For Environmental Services), Transaction Costs, Community roperty Rights, CDM, REDD, Forests
Chapter 12: THE POTENTIAL OF REDD AND LEGAL RESERVE COMPENSATION IN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL 235
Keywords: Biodiversity Valuation, Ecological Economic Zoning, Avoided Deforestation, Carbon Trade, PES (Payment For Environmental Services), Opportunity Cost, Institutional Innovations, Stakeholder Participation, Public Policy Formulation
WASTE
Chapter 13: THE WASTE CRISIS IN CAMPANIA, ITALY 259
Keywords: Hazardous Waste, Ecomafia, Externalities as Cost Shifting Successes, Post-Normal Science, ―Zero Waste‖, Incinerators, Lawrence Summers‘ Principle, DPSIR (Driving Forces, Pressures, States, Impacts, Responses), Corruption, Democracy Crisis, EROI (Energy Returned on Energy Input)
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
Chapter 14: Environmental Justice and Ecological Debt in Belgium: The UMICORE case 295
Keywords: Ecological Debt, Lead Pollution, Manufacturing of Uncertainty, Environmental Justice, Popular Epidemiology, Historic Liability, Environmental Externalities, Corporate Accountability/Liability, Value of Human Life, Ecological Modernisation, Discount Rate, Greenwash