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This paper makes a comparative study of the socio-state capacities developed during the processes of institutionalising protected natural areas (PNA) in Latin America. It sets them within a framework of their interdependence with global governance processes and in relation to the role human rights have played for these purposes. Taking an approach that combines analysis of multilevel collective action with process monitoring, this work traces the trajectories of national and multilateral institutions; analyses the main dynamics that arise in the delimitation of the protection of natural areas in the countries with the greatest biodiversity in the region; and explores the possibilities for new agreements on the global agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to assess the nature of climate litigation at the international level and its role in sustainable development and nature conservation. Climate litigation has allowed claims to be made against governments regarding the climate crisis and companies, especially the largest generators of greenhouse gas emissions. They have also given way to the recognition of the impact and moral responsibility of companies and the lack of action by governments in the global environmental crisis, as well as highlighting the need for each country to establish regulations that promote truly sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper was to make a contribution to environmental arrangement of the livestock potential in the municipality of Jimaguayú, Camagüey, Cuba. The indicators, restrictions, categories and conflicts of livestock potential in the region were identified and located on a map. Additionally, the policies, guidelines, regulations, and standards for proper environmental management in each livestock raising area were determined. The study concluded that the potential of livestock raising depends on the environmental use recommended as principal in eight of the seventeen secondary environmental areas that make up the region; one of them was considered for secondary use. In terms of categories, the municipality comprises 126.9 km2 with inexistent livestock potential, including several settlements and water reservoirs; 115.7 km2 showed a poor potential; 316.3 km2 had a mid-potential; and 225.4 km2 was high. The previous contributed to proper environmental arrangement of livestock potential in the municipality of Jimaguayú, Camagüey. In accordance with it, restrictions, indicators, categories and conflicts observed in the sector were determined to make recommendations for development in the secondary environmental areas with some potential. This study was also useful to set up policies, as well as general and specific guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper was to make a contribution to the environmental arrangement of the livestock potential in the municipality of Jimaguayú, Camagüey, Cuba. The indicators restrictions, categories, and conflicts of the livestock potential in the region were identified and located on a map. Additionally, the policies, guidelines, regulations and standards for proper environmental management in each livestock area were determined. The study concluded that the potential of livestock activity consists in environmentally recommended use in the main eight of the seventeen secondary environmental areas that make up the region. One of them was considered for secondary use. In terms of categories, the municipality comprises 126.9 km2 with inexistent livestock potential, including several settlements and water reservoirs; 115.7 km2 were identified as poor potential; 316.3 km2 had a mid-potential; and 225.4 km2 was high. The previous contributed to the environmental arrangement of the livestock potential in the municipality of Jimaguayú, Camagüey. Accordingly, the restrictions, indicators, categories, and conflicts observed in the sector were determined, to be used as recommendations for development in the secondary environmental areas with some potential, as well as to set up policies, and general and specific guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ocean acidification is a growing problem that affects global environment. Its effects are detectable now, putting the most extensive water resource on the planet at risk and influencing the climate changes that can be documented across the globe. This paper analyzes the protection of the sea as a measure to ensure a healthy environment for future generations, guaranteeing a better way of life for them. We present the different principles governing bioethics, and we establish their relationship with the processes of sustainable development and the increase of acidification in the ocean, which affects a large number of communities of scarce resources in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze the advantages of silvopastoral systems in animal feeding due to their potential, their high nutritional value, as well as because of the results obtained in the contribution to the adaptation and mitigation of the climate change. In this sense, the performance of the following important indicators is mentioned: soil care and action of the edaphic biota, management of plant genetic resources with diversity and functionality, pest and disease integrated management and efficient water management, carbon sequestration, effect of the foliage of different species on the metanogenic bacteria in ruminants, the importance of milk composition and its derivatives; in addition, the combination food-energy production, as contribution to the adaptation and mitigation, is analyzed. In farms that integrate agriculture and livestock production, the development of systems including trees in grazing, either for forage or for energy production (forage ligneous plants and biofuel producing plants, due to their importance in the energy subsystem within the supply chain) means a challenge for food selfsufficiency, to regulate the solar energy that has incidence on the soil surface, with a protective effect on the system's temperature, in areas which were previously dedicated only to milk and meat production or to agricultural crops. With these practices, the investment in imports is lower, allowing higher technical productive, economic, social and environmental efficiency to the productive scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental change are social and cultural dynamics that show us the possibility to build different relationships with the environment. In this paper we propose to discuss how the hegemony of rational thought that has made nature an object domain is a counterbalance in the history of the Red Hñahñu. While reviewing the concrete work done by some indigenous communities as Hñahñu, our endeavor is to show some imaginary social meanings that constitute forms of subjectivity of these indigenous groups that direct their speeches and actions on the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through a qualitative and Critical Discourse Analysis of three Chilean newspapers (El Mercurio, La Tercera, La Segunda) an examination has been undertaken of how issues, which according to scientific findings are directly linked to environmental problems and/or climate change. This paper deals mainly with the discourses published by the Chilean newspapers El Mercurio, La Tercera and La Segunda during two weeks in 2007 and hoa they have addressed, or not addressed in those media. The results of the analysis reveal the ideological significance of "the absent", as well as the way by which the modification-process operating within this medium creates a certain order of discourse: neoliberal and neoclassic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]