Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador
The environmental sphere is singular in its indirect and direct vulnerability to nearly every form of human activity and thought: development theory, social inequalities, global climate change, urban/rural, and human geography. Development and conservation have inhabited the global public arena for...
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| Format: | Master's thesis |
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| Publication date: | 2012 |
| Country: | Ecuador |
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| Language: | English |
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| Keyword: | MEDIO AMBIENTE POLÍTICA PÚBLICA INEQUIDAD SOCIAL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO RECURSOS NATURALES CONSERVACIÓN SUSTENITABILIDAD GOBERNABILIDAD AMBIENTAL SOCIEDAD ECOTURISMO REPRESAS HIDROELÉCTRICAS NEOLIBERALISMO CANTÓN BAÑOS DE AGUA SANTA (ECUADOR) PROVINCIA DE TUNGURAHUA (ECUADOR) ECUADOR |
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| description | The environmental sphere is singular in its indirect and direct vulnerability to nearly every form of human activity and thought: development theory, social inequalities, global climate change, urban/rural, and human geography. Development and conservation have inhabited the global public arena for the past 15 to 20 years, but the specific forms in how it has changed local territorial occupation has recently entered into debate. By focusing on the dynamics found in local governance and local environmental governance spaces a key pattern arose; the act of using local, and natural resources, as a platform for national energy agendas. Thus, a powerful trend has developed in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Baños de Agua Santa Canton involving the physical and social conversion of natural landscapes into hydroenergetic frontiers. There have been numerous debates about how exactly environmental and conservationist paradigms are formed. Using a community and municipality as the focus of a case study I conducted research on how the specific relationship between local governance structures affect environmental dynamics in Baños de Agua Santa located on Tungurahua province. Environmental space, due to the need to reconcile often conflicting interests would be suitable to put the governance test, trying to motivate a real effort to avoid expressions of interest such as these that prevent the fulfillment of environmental objectives required by the government and society. |
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| identifier_str_mv | Razook, Andrea Marie (2012). Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador. Maestría en Ciencias Sociales con mención en Estudios Socioambientales; FLACSO Sede Ecuador. Quito. 137 p. |
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| spelling | Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador Razook, Andrea Marie MEDIO AMBIENTE POLÍTICA PÚBLICA INEQUIDAD SOCIAL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO RECURSOS NATURALES CONSERVACIÓN SUSTENITABILIDAD GOBERNABILIDAD AMBIENTAL SOCIEDAD ECOTURISMO REPRESAS HIDROELÉCTRICAS NEOLIBERALISMO CANTÓN BAÑOS DE AGUA SANTA (ECUADOR) PROVINCIA DE TUNGURAHUA (ECUADOR) ECUADOR The environmental sphere is singular in its indirect and direct vulnerability to nearly every form of human activity and thought: development theory, social inequalities, global climate change, urban/rural, and human geography. Development and conservation have inhabited the global public arena for the past 15 to 20 years, but the specific forms in how it has changed local territorial occupation has recently entered into debate. By focusing on the dynamics found in local governance and local environmental governance spaces a key pattern arose; the act of using local, and natural resources, as a platform for national energy agendas. Thus, a powerful trend has developed in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Baños de Agua Santa Canton involving the physical and social conversion of natural landscapes into hydroenergetic frontiers. There have been numerous debates about how exactly environmental and conservationist paradigms are formed. Using a community and municipality as the focus of a case study I conducted research on how the specific relationship between local governance structures affect environmental dynamics in Baños de Agua Santa located on Tungurahua province. Environmental space, due to the need to reconcile often conflicting interests would be suitable to put the governance test, trying to motivate a real effort to avoid expressions of interest such as these that prevent the fulfillment of environmental objectives required by the government and society. La esfera del medio ambiente es única en su vulnerabilidad directa e indirecta a casi cada forma de actividad y pensamiento humanos: la teoría del desarrollo, inequidades sociales, el cambio climático global, urbano/rural, y la geografía humana. El desarrollo y la conservación han dominado la plaza publica global por los últimos 15 a 20 años, pero las maneras especificas en como ha cambiado la ocupación territorial local solamente ha formado parte del debate recientemente. Para abordar las dinámicas de la gobernanza y los espacios locales de gobernabilidad ambiental, surgió un patrón clave; el acto de usar los recursos locales y naturales, como plataforma de las agendas nacionales sobre la energía. Así, una tendencia importante se ha desarrollado en la Amazonía ecuatoriana y el cantón de Baños de Agua Santa que incluye la conversión física y social de los paisajes naturales en las fronteras hidroeléctricas. Hubo varios debates acerca de como exactamente se forman los paradigmas ambientales y de conservación. Tomando una comunidad y un municipio como el eje de un estudio de caso, realicé ésta investigación basada en la relación específica entre las estructuras de gobierno locales que afectan las dinámicas medio-ambientales en Baños de Agua Santa ubicado en la provincia de Tungurahua. En el espacio medioambiental, debido a la necesidad de conciliar los intereses a menudo contradictorios, sería adecuado poner a prueba al gobierno, tratando de motivar un verdadero esfuerzo para evitar las manifestaciones de interés como estas, que impiden el cumplimiento de los objetivos ambientales requeridos por el gobierno y la sociedad. Quito : FLACSO Sede Ecuador Razook, Andrea Marie (2012). Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador. Maestría en Ciencias Sociales con mención en Estudios Socioambientales; FLACSO Sede Ecuador. Quito. 137 p. http://hdl.handle.net/10469/4735 |
| spellingShingle | Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador Razook, Andrea Marie MEDIO AMBIENTE POLÍTICA PÚBLICA INEQUIDAD SOCIAL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO RECURSOS NATURALES CONSERVACIÓN SUSTENITABILIDAD GOBERNABILIDAD AMBIENTAL SOCIEDAD ECOTURISMO REPRESAS HIDROELÉCTRICAS NEOLIBERALISMO CANTÓN BAÑOS DE AGUA SANTA (ECUADOR) PROVINCIA DE TUNGURAHUA (ECUADOR) ECUADOR |
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| title | Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador |
| title_full | Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador |
| title_fullStr | Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador |
| title_full_unstemmed | Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador |
| title_short | Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador |
| title_sort | Defined Territories and Spaces in Transition : Local Perspectives on Environment in the Baños de Agua Santa Canton, Tungurahua - Ecuador |
| topic | MEDIO AMBIENTE POLÍTICA PÚBLICA INEQUIDAD SOCIAL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO RECURSOS NATURALES CONSERVACIÓN SUSTENITABILIDAD GOBERNABILIDAD AMBIENTAL SOCIEDAD ECOTURISMO REPRESAS HIDROELÉCTRICAS NEOLIBERALISMO CANTÓN BAÑOS DE AGUA SANTA (ECUADOR) PROVINCIA DE TUNGURAHUA (ECUADOR) ECUADOR |
| topic_facet | MEDIO AMBIENTE POLÍTICA PÚBLICA INEQUIDAD SOCIAL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO RECURSOS NATURALES CONSERVACIÓN SUSTENITABILIDAD GOBERNABILIDAD AMBIENTAL SOCIEDAD ECOTURISMO REPRESAS HIDROELÉCTRICAS NEOLIBERALISMO CANTÓN BAÑOS DE AGUA SANTA (ECUADOR) PROVINCIA DE TUNGURAHUA (ECUADOR) ECUADOR |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10469/4735 |