CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Valencia Arroyo, Lenin Arturo |
|---|---|
| Title | Decentralization and Biodiversity Conservation in Peru: the case of the National Reserve of Tambopata |
| Summary | The link between Biodiversity Conservation outcomes and Decentralization policies that were widely implemented in Peru since 2002 is centrally important to understanding the governance arrangements and management of the National Reserve of Tambopata (NRT) in the Madre de Dios region, a globally important region in terms of its ecological diversity. This link, however, remains largely unexplored in the literature on the management, conflict and biodiversity outcomes within the NRT and broader region. Faced with the weakness of national political parties, the State-Civil society relations in Madre de Dios have been permanently mediated by unstable linkages between changing local elites, spontaneous social movements and civil society organizations pursuing their respective agendas. As a result, the process of decentralization itself has contributed to a slow reconfiguration and consolidation of local political elites, benefiting indirectly to the emergence of an environmental movement, albeit a movement still in a nascent stage. These dimensions are explored with particular reference to Ostrom’s notion of polycentricity in order to illuminate the institutional dimensions that inform these developments. |
| Supervisor | Guntra Aistara |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/valencia-arroyo_lenin-arturo.pdf |
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