Jordi Diez

Political Change and Environmental Policymaking in Mexico

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico as a vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy process within a system undergoing a democratic transformation. It constitutes the first major analysis of environmental policymaking in Mexico at the national level, and examines the implementation of forestry policy in Mexico's largest rain forest, the Selva Lacandona of the state of Chiapas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415650908
• ISBN-10: 0415650909
• Artikelnr.: 36622534

Autorenporträt

Jordi Díez is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph, Canada and has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, the University of Toronto and Queen's University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Political Change in Mexico 2. The Environmental Movement
and ENGOs in Mexico 3. Environmental Agenda Setting under Ernesto Zedillo
4. The Making of Environmental Policy 5. The Role of Congress in
Environmental Policy Making 6. Deforestation in the Selva Lacandona of
Chiapas: The Last of the Mahoganies? 7. The Implementation of Forestry
Policy in the Sleva Lacandona. Epilogue: The Decline of the Environmental
Agenda under Vicente Fox. Conclusion