Environmental politics in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants' perspectives

This course offers a comprehensive examination of principal environmental issues that local communities, Indigenous Peoples and Afrodescendent Peoples of Latin America have to face, in particular regarding food systems, energy transition, water scarcity and adaptation to increased extreme weather events. Employing a social science framework, the course will analyze case studies illustrating the policy instruments employed by Latin American states and the diverse networks of actors influencing and contesting these processes.