Legal Tools and Incentives for Private Lands Conservation in Latin America
Legal Tools and Incentives for Private Lands Conservation in Latin America

Author: Environmental Law Institute

Publisher: Environmental Law Institute

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781585760596

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This publication describes the use of legal tools and incentives mechanisms for the conservation of private lands in Latin America, and assesses their implementation record. It reviews both mandatory provisions and the use of voluntary instruments such as easements and private reserve designations that have grown in use since the early 1990s. It ends with recommendations for an improved framework for private lands conservation, and presents model laws for the creation of private reserves and conservation easements.

Policymaking for Conservation in Latin America
Policymaking for Conservation in Latin America

Author: Jack W. Hopkins

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1995-10-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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The book, a study of policymaking for conservation in Latin America, employs comparative analysis to explain the policy process in three countries—Argentina, Chile, and Costa Rica. Case studies and examples of important policy decisions made in the three countries are employed to help illuminate variations in the policy process from country to country. The analysis is set against the constant conflict between demands for economic development and conservation. Hopkins has selected important examples of policy problems in the areas of conservation, national parks, and environmental protection in the three countries and set these against the political system in each country for comparison. The cases range from the controversial issue of Lago Chungara in Chile to Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica to the Yacyreta hydroelectric project in Argentina. The study aims at beginning to fill an important gap in the literature on national parks, conservation, and environmental protection in Latin America. As such, the volume will be of interest to students of contemporary Latin America, policymaking, and environmental studies.

Mountains and the Law
Mountains and the Law

Author: Annie Villeneuve

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9789251048306

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Most countries have not yet adopted mountain-specific laws, preferring to protect mountains through existing sectoral legislation. However, countries such as France, Georgia, Italy, Russian Federation (North Ossetia-Alania), Switzerland and Ukraine, have enacted legal instruments dealing specifically with mountains, and other countries are developing similar legislation. This publication broadly describes the main elements of international and national mountain-specific legal texts, and also includes national case studies.