Fabio de Castro is assistant professor at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is member of ENGOV, a research programme on Environmental Governance in Latin America funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (FP7), coordinated by CEDLA. He graduated in Environmental Science at Indiana University (USA) under co-supervision of Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom. He has previously worked in academic, non-governmental and governmental organizations in Brazil. His research is focused on forestry, fisheries and farming systems on themes related to collective action, environmental conflicts and landscape change in the Amazon. He has published several book chapters and journal articles and is currently co-editing the synthesis volume of the ENGOV research project to be published in 2015.
Although participation in the decision-making process has increased in the last twenty years in Latin America, genuine participation of local people in environmental governance has been far from reality. Local communities’ level of autonomy in sha...
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