Political Change and Environmental Policymaking in Mexico

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Taylor & Francis, 2006 - 282 páginas
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.
 

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Introduction
1
Chapter One Political Change in Mexico
13
Chapter Two The Environmental Movement and ENGOs in Mexico
27
Chapter Three Environmental Agenda Setting under Ernesto Zedillo
39
Chapter Four The Making of Environmental Policy
55
Chapter Five The Role of Congress in Environmental Policy Making
95
The Last of the Mahoganies?
111
Chapter Seven The Implementation of Forestry Policy in the Selva Lacandona
127
Changes in the Mining Regulation
183
Environmental Initiatives Introduced
185
The Gini Coefficient
189
Maps
191
Main Components of the Policy Changes Dealing with the Forestry Sector
197
Interviews Conducted in 2004 and 2005 for Epilogue
199
Notes
203
Bibliography
251

The Decline of the Environmental Agenda under Vicente Fox
151
Interviews
175
Governmental Expenditure on Environmental Protection in Latin America
181
Index
271
Back cover
283
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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.

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