Social Environmental Conflicts in Mexico Resistance to Dispossession and Alternatives from Below /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tetreault, Darcy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), McCulligh, Cindy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lucio, Carlos (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Environmental Politics and Theory
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Environmental policy.; Political theory.; Latin American Politics.; Environmental Politics.; Political Theory.

What are the political economic conditions that have given rise to increasing numbers of social environmental conflicts in Mexico? Why do these conflicts arise in some local and regional contexts and not in others? How are social environmental movements constructed and sustained? And what are the al...

Table of Contents:

• 1. An Introduction to Social Environmental Conflicts and Alternatives in Mexico
• 2. Energy Privatization and Land Grabbing: The Scope and Contradictions of the Mexican Neoliberal Oil Mega-Initiative
• 3. Winds of Resistance in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
• 4. Political Class Formation in Opposition to the Zapotillo Dam
• 5. The Grey Side of Green Growth: Environmental Regulation and the Industrial Pollution of the Santiago River
• 6. Water in Zacatecas: A Crisis without Conflict
• 7. Thermal Waters, Ecotourism and Indigenous Community in the Mezquital Valley of Hidalgo
• 8. Traditional Mezcal Production in Zapotitlán de Vadillo
• 9. Taking Stock of Contestation and Alternatives to Neoliberal Capitalism in Mexico.