In this original and engaging account of the three-way struggles between the Ecuadorian state, global environmental donors, and local environmentalists, Lewis takes forward our understanding of the tortuous, binary synthesis that emerges from the combination of sustainable development policy and neoliberal economics. This book is a rare thing -- an analysis of what happens when the environmental rhetoric, and the money, run out. -- Michael Redclift, King's College, London, author of Chewing Gum: The Fortunes of Taste and Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions offers a unique framework for evaluating trade-offs among economic, social, and ecological values and policies in the globalization era. Comparing successive neoliberal periods, Tammy Lewis provides a didactic template for analyzing changing balances of forces within and between states, extractive resource interests, and environmental movements. This is a very timely case study with universal relevance. -- Philip McMichael, Cornell University, author of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective and Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions
Tammy L. Lewis is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York/Brooklyn College and Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center in Sociology and Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Lewis' study is, perhaps, the first comprehensive history of modern
environmentalism in Ecuador, and it provides an insightful analysis
of the dynamics at play between international actors, national NGOs
and movements, and the state. The book's analytical framework can
be applied to other developing countries to analyse and understand
the dynamics of struggles for sustainability in the Global
South.—Journal of Latin American Studies
Overall, this book is a thoroughly researched contribution to
understanding how global processes intermingle with environment and
development trajectories on multiple levels throughout the
developing world.—Bulletin of Latin American Research
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