Author Description

Finding the "Latin American" in Latin American environmental history / John Soluri, Claudia Leal, Jose Augusto Padua -- Mexico's ecological revolutions / Chris Boyer, Martha Micheline Cariño Olvera -- The greater Caribbean and the transformation of tropicality / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- Indigenous imprints and remnants in the tropical Andes / Nicolás Cuvi -- The dilemma of the "splendid cradle": nature and territory in the construction of Brazil / José Augusto Pádua -- From threatening to threatened jungles / Claudia Leal -- The wall and the ivy: environmental narratives from an urban continent / Lise Sedrez, Regina Horta Duarte -- Home cooking: campesinos, cuisine, and agrodiversity / John Soluri -- Hoofprints: cattle ranching and landscape transformation / Shawn Van Ausdal, Robert W. Wilcox -- Extraction stories: workers, nature, and communities in the mining and oil industries / Myrna I. Santiago -- Prodigality and sustainability: the environmental sciences and the quest for development / Stuart McCook -- A panorama of parks: deep nature, depopulation, and the cadence of conserving nature / Emily Wakild -- Latin American environmental history in global perspective / J.R. McNeill