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Slow harms and citizen action : environmental degradation and policy change in Latin American cities /

"Slow moving environmental harms are typically ignored or accepted parts of everyday life, particularly in low resource settings in Global South cities. How do communities mobilize around habituated exposure to toxins and initiate policy change for a historically ignored policy problem? The boo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herrera, Veronica Maria Sol (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Series:Studies in comparative energy and environmental politics.
Subjects:
Environmentalism > Latin America > Citizen participation.
Environmental justice > Latin America.
Environmental degradation > Latin America.
Urban pollution > Latin America.
Water > Pollution > Latin America.
Community organization > Latin America.
Environnementalisme > Amérique latine > Participation des citoyens.
Justice environnementale > Amérique latine.
Environnement > Dégradation > Amérique latine.
Pollution urbaine > Amérique latine.
Organisation communautaire > Amérique latine.
International Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Environmental Policy.
Public Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Community organization
Environmental degradation
Environmental justice
Urban pollution
Water > Pollution
Latin America
The environment.
Environment and Ecology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of slow harms in the Latin American city
  • Slow harms : ubiquity and invisibility in the Global South
  • Expansive policy shifts in Argentina : the power of strong bonds with strong bridges
  • Stagnated policy shifts in Colombia : on strong bonds with weak bridges
  • Uninitiated policy shifts in Peru : the challenge of weak bonds with no bridges
  • Cities, pollution, and democracy.