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Scaling up Buen Vivir: Globalizing Local Environmental Governance from Ecuador

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  • Craig M. Kauffman

    (Craig M. Kauffman is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon.)

  • Pamela L. Martin

    (Pamela L. Martin is a professor of politics at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina.)

Abstract

How does the population of a small Ecuadorian province influence the development strategies pursued nationally and consequently push the global conversation toward an alternative model of sustainable development? This article explores watershed management reform in Tungurahua, Ecuador, to analyze how local communities challenged the dominant international model of sustainable development and—through a process of negotiation, learning, and network construction with international partners—produced an alternative model infused by indigenous norms of human wellbeing, or sumak kawsay—el buen vivir. The institutionalization of these norms was a catalyst for the development of Ecuador's National Plan for Wellbeing (Buen Vivir) and Ecuador's quest to change the way the world thinks about development and sustainability. This case illuminates how local populations working with competing interpretations from international agendas construct new environmental governance regimes, and how the scaling up of these regimes carries local norms of environmental management to the global level. © 2014 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Craig M. Kauffman & Pamela L. Martin, 2014. "Scaling up Buen Vivir: Globalizing Local Environmental Governance from Ecuador," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 14(1), pages 40-58, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:14:y:2014:i:1:p:40-58
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    1. Cappelli, Federica & Caravaggio, Nicola & Vaquero-Piñeiro, Cristina, 2022. "Buen Vivir and forest conservation in Bolivia: False promises or effective change?," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
    2. Dupuits, Emilie & Baud, Michiel & Boelens, Rutgerd & de Castro, Fabio & Hogenboom, Barbara, 2020. "Scaling up but losing out? Water commons' dilemmas between transnational movements and grassroots struggles in Latin America," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    3. Kauffman, Craig M. & Martin, Pamela L., 2017. "Can Rights of Nature Make Development More Sustainable? Why Some Ecuadorian lawsuits Succeed and Others Fail," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 92(C), pages 130-142.
    4. Kate J. Neville & Glen Coulthard, 2019. "Transformative Water Relations: Indigenous Interventions in Global Political Economies," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 19(3), pages 1-15, August.
    5. Todd A. Eisenstadt & Karleen Jones West, 2017. "Indigenous Belief Systems, Science, and Resource Extraction: Climate Change Attitudes in Ecuador," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 17(1), pages 40-58, February.
    6. Laura Aileen Sauls, 2020. "Becoming fundable? Converting climate justice claims into climate finance in Mesoamerica’s forests," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 161(2), pages 307-325, July.

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    Keywords

    environmental governance; Ecuador; watershed management;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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