Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies

Science and Environment

Science and the environment.

Why Latin America Matters

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This collection of essays exploring Why Latin America Matters aims to make the case for the importance of Latin America as a crucial region in global politics and development. With its rich history, cultures, enormous resilience and creative innovation in the face of constant threats against nature and human dignity, Latin America can indeed show the way forward for the world.

Essays by

Hamid Alberto Abud Russell - Luciana Anapios - Amelia Bain - Mariana V. Capparelli - John Corbett - Stefano Cracolici - Stephanie Crane De Narváez - Soledad Garcia Ferrari - Carlos Gonzales-Inca - Claudia Hammerschmidt - Prue Holmes - Maritina Iliadi - Marta Alicja Kania - Katharina Kaesehage - Ella Keating - Judith Keller - Jorge Krekeler - Hans Leinfelder - Sebastián J. Lipina - Daniela Irena Łukaszewicz - Henrike Neuhaus - Xavier Méndez Abad - Gabriel M. Moulatlet - Hans Egil Offerdal - Alessandro Palmieri - Camilo Pérez-Bustillo - Pablo Pérez Chaves - Francesco Davide Ragno - Juan-David Restrepo-Zapata - Valentina Rioseco Vallejos - Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm - Ilari E. Sääksjärvi - Matti Salo - Raphael Schapira - Yves Schoonjans - Jaromír Soukup - Hanna Tuomisto - Johanna M. Toivonen - Gabriela Zuquim 

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Dr Soledad Garcia-Ferrari

International Dean for Arts, Humanities and Social Science

  • Edinburgh College of Art

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