ABSTRACT
The comparatively young literature on environmental politics in Latin America casts a wide net in terms of scope, approaches, and geographic scale. Its scope spans natural resource use, biodiversity conservation, climate change policy, and urban environmental problems. Major approaches include environmental economics, political economy, political ecology, and conservation biology. The scale ranges from the sub-national level to the national, regional, and the global. Many of these studies are highly policy oriented, concentrating on the diagnosis of problems and prescribing solutions.
