Climate change is projected to have a strongly negative effect on water supplies in the arid
mountains of South America, significantly impacting millions of people. As one of the poorest …

Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the
consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in …

The high rate of global urbanization has resulted in a rapid increase in informal settlements,
which can be defined as unplanned, unauthorized, and/or unstructured housing …

The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) emerged in Bolivia's Chapare region in the 1990s.
Born of a rural social movement of coca growers, it spread to the cities and became the …

" Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle between 2000 and 2005 that
overthrew two neoliberal presidents and laid the foundation for Evo Morales' successful bid …

This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America
and why state policy is often ineffective. Political scientists and sociologists, the contributors …

An increasing number of studies pointed out the ubiquitous presence of medical residues in
surface and ground water as well as in soil compartments. Not only antibiotics can be found …

At 50% of the global workforce, informal workers constitute a large, diffuse, and resource-
poor group with high barriers to collective action. Contrary to scholars' expectations, informal …

The drivers–pressures–state–impact–responses (DPSIR) framework has been used widely
to support environmental policy developments. However, we argue that DPSIR tends to …

Cities in develo** countries encounter rapid waves of social transformation and economic
development where the environment is mostly a neglected aspect. The Katari watershed …