8. “Ni Una Bomba Mas”: Reframing the Vieques Struggle

McCaffrey, Katherine T.; Baver, Sherrie

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“…Economic actors typically prefer to avoid or reduce regulations and protection standards. Yet, some economic actors occasionally may favor higher environmental protection and regulation in order to secure their economic interestssuch as small-scale farming or tourismagainst competing activitiessuch as mining or industrial agriculture (Alvarado Merino, 2008;Christel, 2019;McCaffrey and Baver, 2006;Murillo and Mangonnet, 2013;Urkidi and Walter, 2011;Walter and Martínez-Alier, 2010). They may also prefer environmental regulation as a means to mitigate skyrocketing social unrest and judicial pressures (Amengual, 2016(Amengual, , 2013McAllister, 2008).…”

Section: Environmental Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As we show throughout the Element, the variation in the policy preferences of state actors is crucial to understand the politics of environmental policy and its effects. To a large extent, the success and failure of environmental protection initiatives rest on the collaboration and forged coalitions between state and social actors (Amengual, 2013;Castro et al, 2016;Christen et al, 1998;Gutiérrez, 2020Gutiérrez, , 2018Hochstetler and Keck, 2007;Kauffman and Terry, 2016;Lemos, 1998;Lemos and Looye, 2003;McCaffrey and Baver, 2006;Steinberg, 2001;Walter and Urkidi, 2016).…”

Section: Environmental Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Examples of mixed tactics and strategies abound in Latin America and the Caribbean. These may include legal actions in subnational conflict against mining in Argentina (Christel, 2020); consultations and referendums over forest management in Costa Rica (Cordero Ulate, 2017) and large-scale mining projects across the region (Walter and Urkidi, 2016); and lobbying in antipollution struggles in Brazil (Lemos, 1998;Lemos and Looye, 2003) and Puerto Rico (McCaffrey and Baver, 2006).…”

Section: Environmental Mobilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instead of disconnected or opposing forces, as mentioned earlier in the text, some studies find that elite organizations and grassroots groups work together around common issues and goals, as part of the same alliance, coalition, or network (Alvarado Merino, 2008;Bebbington et al, 2011;Bratman, 2015;Cisneros, 2016;Cordero Ulate, 2017;Domínguez, 2008;Foyer and Dumoulin Kevran, 2017;Gutiérrez, 2018;Hochstetler and Keck, 2007;Lemos, 1998;Lemos and Looye, 2003;McCaffrey and Baver, 2006;Merlinsky, 2013b;Svampa, 2012;Valdés Pizzini, 2006;Velázquez López Velarde et al, 2018;Viola, 1992). These networks at times even include state actors, as we also discuss in the next section.…”

Section: Environmental Mobilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This approach of forging broad coalitions can be found in multiple examples across Latin America and the Caribbean. They include the struggle against military control of the Vieques Island in Puerto Rico (McCaffrey and Baver, 2006); the defense of transhumance pastoralism and ancestral lands in Northern Argentina (Domínguez, 2008); the resistance to open-pit mining across Latin America (Cisneros, 2016;Urkidi and Walter, 2011;Walter and Urkidi, 2016); and the influence of environmental coalitions in Argentine environmental policymaking (Gutiérrez, 2018).…”

Section: Environmental Mobilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

Alcañiz

Gutiérrez

2022

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The study of environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean expands as conflicts stemming from the deterioration of the natural world increase. Yet this scholarship has not generated a broad research agenda similar to the ones that emerged around other key political phenomena. This Element seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrate the existing, disparate literatures. Drawing from distributive politics, this Element asks who benefits from the appropriation and pollution of the environment, who pays the costs of climate change and environmental degradation, and who gains from the allocation of state protections.

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Section: Environmental Actorsmentioning

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Environmental Mobilization in Latin America

Christel

Gutiérrez

2023

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements

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This chapter reviews and discusses the vast literature on environmental mobilization in Latin America and the Caribbean from the 1980s on. There is a tendency in the literature to use the term environmental “movement” as tantamount to “mobilization” or “organization,” while only a few studies elaborate what an environmental movement is and what the conditions for its existence are. Given this lack of precision in using the term movement and the fact that several studies do not use it at all, this chapter seeks to answer to what extent the concept of social movement is appropriate to understand environmental mobilization in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its starting point is the conceptual distinction between environmental mobilization and environmental movement. The chapter defines environmental mobilization as the collective action aiming to influence (in either contentious or institutionalized ways) the decisions regarding the political and economic regulation of the interactions between human beings and their environment. Based upon this definition, it first examines the general characteristics of environmental mobilization in the region and then discusses the analytical scope of the concept of social movement as used in the literature. Based on this review, the chapter contends that the concept of environmental mobilization is better equipped than the notion of social movement to grasp the singularities of Latin American and Caribbean environmentalism.

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Environmental justice policy in the United States: community definition and benefits allocation in underserved and overburdened communities

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The Biden Administration's Justice40 initiative promises to allocate at least 40 percent of the benefits from federal investments in climate and clean energy to disadvantaged communities.In order to deliver on this promise, both the concept of "benefits" and "disadvantaged communities" need to be defined-otherwise, the promised distribution of benefits cannot be evaluated. While the Justice40 initiative is moving forward at the federal level, it is likely that over the next decade, U.S. states will follow the federal government's leadership in allocating benefits to disadvantaged communities. At the same time, U.S. states are experimenting with different approaches to environmental justice community definition and policy interventions.Environmental justice policy research, which has traditionally focused on analyzing how state characteristics are correlated with the existence of an environmental justice policy, is based on a conceptualization of justice that splits policies into procedural or substantive categories. There is little research that focuses on environmental justice policy at the U.S. state level and incorporates more complex theories of justice from a wide range of environmental justice theorists.

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8. “Ni Una Bomba Mas”: Reframing the Vieques Struggle

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The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

Environmental Mobilization in Latin America

Environmental justice policy in the United States: community definition and benefits allocation in underserved and overburdened communities

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