Pinochet's 1974 forestry law led to a rapid increase in development of the sector in southern
Chile. Although there have been new employment opportunities and associated economic …

Neruda's famous claim,'Anyone who hasn't been in the Chilean forest doesn't know this
planet', is used widely in Chile by environmentalists, travel agents and chambers of …

Community-based approaches to forest management and governance promised that
transferred responsibilities to forest communities would create the conditions to achieve …

In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history
of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today's forestry" miracle" in Chile. Although Chile's …

This paper argues that the construction of two opposing ideal types of sustainable
development–market-friendly and grassroots development–serves as a useful analytical tool …

Chile is a well-studied case of how neoliberal institutions have affected the use of natural
resources. However, only few studies have focused on how neoliberalization has influenced …

This thesis studies the daily articulations and frictions between community forestry,
coloniality and the process known as the neoliberalization of nature. Across the global South …

The Mapuche movement is among the most important social movements in post-dictatorship
Chile. Since the 1990s, the Mapuche struggle has increasingly turned into a violent conflict …

On 20 December 2006, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) declared that
2011 would be the International Year of Forests. It stated that 'concerted efforts should focus …

The Mexican national Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, which provide
financial incentives for rural landholders to conserve forest, were originally designed under …