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1 INDEX A Accountability, 161 Accountability politics, 19, 135 Agribusiness, 46, 50, 51, 65, 78, 79, 81, 83 Agriculture production, 45, 49, 80, 109, 130, 141 Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de nuestra América (Alba)-Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America, 14, 64, 77, 78, 83, 165 Amazon, 3, 4, 37, 40, 78, 92 Andean countries, 47, 168 Andean flamingos, 130, 134, 136, 142 Argentina, 3, 6, 11 13, 15, 36, 37, 41 43, 46, 47, 51, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 80, 91, 92, 94, 96 98, , 115, 127, 131, 133, 136, , 145, 166 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 160, 164 Aves Argentinas, 130, 140, 142 B Birdlife International, 130, 136, 141, 142 Bolivia, 12, 43, 46, 48, 50, 80, 91, 92, 100, 101, 103, 115, 126, 131, 136, 145, 168 Bolsa Familia, 47, 81 Bonn Convention. See Convention on Migratory Species Boomerang strategy, 99 Botnia, 98 Brasiguayos, 82 Brazil, 82, 83, 91, 92, 94, 96, , 126, 128, 140, 141, 145, 166 Buen vivir, 158 C Capitalism, 1, 4, 9, 11, 14, 23, 34, 35, 40, 42, 44, 45, 48, 49, 54, 63, 66, 76 78, 80, 92, 94, 98, 105, 108, 109, 114, 123, 141, 145, 153, 163, 165, Capitalist economy, 52 Centro de Formación para la Integración Regional (CEFIR)- Centre of Education for Regional Integration, 71 Centro Latinoamericano de Ecología Social (CLAES)-Latin American Centre of Social Ecology, 66 69, 71 Chile, 46, 47, 67, 126, , 145 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 K.M. Siegel, Regional Environmental Cooperation in South America, International Political Economy Series, DOI /

2 176 INDEX China, 9, 10, 45, 46, 68, 94, 169 Climate change, 8 10, 67, 83 Cochabamba water wars, 115 Comité Intergubernamental Coordinador de los Países de la Cuenca del Plata (CIC)- Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee of the La Plata Basin Countries, 93, 104, 113, 161 Commodity boom, 14, 34, 44, 47, 76, 168 Consejo Suramericano de Infraestructura y Planeamiento (COSIPLAN)-South American Council of Infrastructure and Planning, 78 Cooperation components, 5, 16, 38, 99, 151 drivers, 13, 17, 22, 24, 76, 91, 123, 124, 127, 139, 152, , , 164, 165, 167 formal, 3, 16, 18 21, 23, 35, 37, 99, 124, 128, 129, 133, 134, 138, , 157, 162 in practice, 3, 17, 19, 20, 35 37, 41, 75, 99, 104, 123, 124, 127, 128, 133, 145, 151, 152, 154 processes, 10, 11, 16, 24, 34, 45, 54, 63, 67, 71, 79, 84, 91, 92, 99, 105, 133, 152, 155, 160, 162, 163, Curuguaty, 81 CyMA (Mercosur project Competitiveness and Environment), 72, 73, 75 D da Silva, Luiz Inácio (Lula), 44 Democracy, 1, 13, 33, 36, 39, 65, 95, 97 Democratisation, 11, 13, 33, 34, 36, 39, 40, 42, 99 Development, 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 14, 15, 33, 34, 46, 48, 50, 51, 53, 73, 75, 79, 80, 83, 91, 93, 95, 96, , 105, 112, 127, 128, 130, 136, 137, 139, 145, 151, 153, 156, 158, 165, 167, 169, 170 Development strategy, 14, 16, 24, 34, 47, 48, 50, 168 Donor. See external funder E Earth Summit. See Rio Summit Earth system governance, 161 Ecuador, 50, 51, 126, 156, 168 Elites, 13, 14, 34, 39, 42, 48, 49, 53, 74, 96, 168 Endogenous driver, 16, 21, 91, 107, 111, 115, 124, 152, 153, 156, 160 Energy, 4, 14, 64, 77, 78, 83, 92, 93, 98, 101, 107, 170 Environmental justice, 49, 51 53, 124, 144, 154, 166 Environmental norms, 1, 11, 37, 74, 168 Epistemic community, 160 European Union (EU), 7, 12, 24, 63 66, 69, 72 76, 102, 105, 110, 111, 152, 154, , 167, 170 Exogenous driver, 17, 22, 91, 110, 128, 138, 152, 153, 161 External funder/external funding, 13, 16, 17, 22, 84, 107, 110, 115, 152, 155, 156, 162 F Fondo Financiero para el Desarrollo de la Cuenca del Plata (FONPLATA)-

3 INDEX 177 Development Fund of the La Plata Basin, 93, 100, 109 Forestry, 36, 40, 46, 160 Framing, 17, 23, 105, 152, 158 FREPLATA, 41, 103, 105, 106, 108, 114 Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN)-Environment and Natural Resources Foundation, 71 G Global environmental convention, 5, 6, 8, 125, 128, 135, 159 Global Environment Facility (GEF), 24, 70, 91, 95, , 106, 107, 109, 110, , 140, 141, 155 Global political economy, 25, 153, Global stakeholder democracy, 162 Grassland birds, 130, 134, 136, 137, 140, 141, 145 Grasslands Alliance (Alianza del Pastizal), 141 Green economy, 53, 143, 158, 160 Growth, 10, 33, 34, 39, 40, 42, 50, 95, 169 Grupo de Conservación Flamencos Altoandinos (GCFA)-High Andes Flamingo Conservation Group, 131, 132, 136, 142, 146 Guaraní aquifer, 53, 69, 70, 92, , , 157 Guyra Paraguay, 130, 136, 139, 142 H Hidrovía, 70, 97 Huemul, 132, 133, 145 Hydropower, 4, 12, 40, 78, 95, 98, 115, 142, 146, 157 I Impeachment, 15, 44, 48, 80 83, 166 Inequality, 42, 80 Iniciativa para la Integración de la Infraestructura Regional Suramericana (IIRSA)-Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America, 64, 78, 79, 109, 165 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), 36, 97, 109, 141 International Monetary Fund (IMF), 39, 46, 47, 114 Itaipú, 82, 85, 94, 96, 98, 100, 101, 116 K Kirchner Cristina Fernández de, 43 governments, 47 Néstor, 43 L Land rights, 44, 52, 81, 144 La Plata basin, 3, 21, 24, 37, 70, 91 97, 99, 100, 102, 104, 106, 107, , 155, 157, 161, 163, 167 river, 91, 108 La Plata basin treaty (Tratado de la Cuenca del Plata), 93, 100 Left tide, 33, 43, 44, 71, 77 Legitimacy, 14, 19, 24, 37, 42, 48, 152, 154, 161, 162 Lugo, Fernando, 44, 80 Lula. See da Silva, Luiz Inácio (Lula) M Macri, Mauricio, 43 Market-based mechanisms, 39, 53, 158

4 178 INDEX Mercosur (Mercado Común del Súr - Common Market of the South), 5, 11, 12, 38, 54, 64 77, 79, 81 84, 105, 107, , 123, 138, 154, 157, 159, Mercosur parliament, 69, 112, 114, 157 Migratory species, 5, 24, 53, 105, 110, 115, , 133, 135, 137, 138, 144, 145, 157, 158, 163 Mining, 39, 47, 52, 78, 142, 145 Morales, Evo, 43, 48 Movimento Sem Terra (MST)-Landless Workers Movement, 50 Mujica, José, 44 N Natural resources exploitation, 34, 40, 44, 45, 47, 48, 50, 84, 153, 168 governance of, 40, 43 Neo-extractivism, 15, 33, 45, 47, 48, 50, 52, 54, 65, 79, 83 Neoliberalism, 64 Neoliberal policies, 11, 40, 46, 51 Neoliberal reforms, 13, 14, 33, 34, 39 41, 46 NGO conservation NGO, 12, 123, 124, 127, 129, 133, 135 international NGO, 3, 97, 130, 140, 157, 158 professional NGO, 35, 41, 42, 124, 128, 129, 153 O Outside strategies, 99, 157 P Pantanal, 97, 99 Paper industry, 46, 142, 145 Paraguay, 3, 6, 11 13, 36, 44, 46, 48, 64, 65, 69, 72, 79 83, 91, 92, 94, 96 98, , 127, 130, 136, 139, 140, 142, 166 Parlasur. See Mercosur Parliament Pilcomayo River, 101, 102, 105, 106, 110, 111 Poverty, 14, 33, 42, 44, 48, 80, 168 Pulp mill, 46, 51, 70, 98, 106 R Regime, 4, 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 18, 35, 39, 83, 91, 93, 94, 111, , , 138, 140, 157, 163 Regional integration, 15, 23, 54, 63 65, 71, 73, 74, 76, 78, 80, 98, 111, 112, 152, 155, 159, , 167 Regionalism open regionalism, 11 post-hegemonic regionalism, 84 post-neoliberal regionalism, 166 Regional organisation, 12, 14, 24, 54, 63 67, 69, 71, 74, 77, 79, 83, 84, 113, 154, 164, 165, 167 Regional resource regime, 4, 12, 91, 93 Reprimarisation, 45 Rio + 20 summit, 53 Rio de la Plata, 41, 92, 103, 106 Rio Summit, 2, 11, 35, 67 Robustness, 18, 20, 35, 124, 129, 140 Rosinha, Florisvaldo, 113 Rousseff, Dilma, 15, 44, 166 Ruddy-headed goose, 127, 129, 133, 134, 136

5 INDEX 179 S South-North divisions, 1 Soybean republic, 80 Soybean, Soya, 15, 45, 47, 48, 52, 80, 112, 130, 141 State actor, 124 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, 125 Subgroup 6 on the environment (SGT6), 66, 68, 70, 73, 75, 113, 157 Sustainability, 4, 34, 45, 49, 50, 64, 65, 95, 99, 105 Sustainable development, 4, 9, 95, 102, 155, 169 T Temer, Michel, 44 Transnational government networks, 164, 165 Treaty of Asuncion, 11 U UN Conference on Environment and Development. See Rio Summit UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), 8, 126 Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Unasur)-Union of South American Nations, 3, 14, 64, 77, 78, 81 83, 163, 165 United States (US), 13, 39, 52, 63 65, 77, 78, 140, 165, 166 Uruguay, 3, 6, 11, 13, 36, 41, 44, 46, 47, 50, 51, 64, 65, 70, 80, 91, 92, 98, 100, 101, , 115, 127, , 166 Uruguay River, 51, 98, 101, 103, 106 V Vásquez, Tabaré, 44, 71 Venezuela, 78, 83, 126, 166 W Wetlands International, 129, 136 World Bank, 39, 46, 103, 114, 115, 140 Y Yacyretá, 96 98, 100, 142

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