Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad s/n Circuito 2, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos, CP 62210, Mexico.
Environ Manage. 2023 Apr;71(4):847-866. doi: 10.1007/s00267-022-01739-z. Epub 2022 Nov 8.
The analysis of environmental governance and the analytical frameworks used to study this concept in Latin America show that the term is diffuse and polysemic. The term governance refers to democratic societies that theoretically encourage the plural participation of actors in decision making to solve public or collective socioenvironmental problems. However, in Latin America, there is a broad social perception of a democratic deficit that affects the socioenvironmental sphere. The objective of this work is to determine the main trends in studies on environmental governance in Latin America, the most commonly used analytical frameworks and the predominant approaches to characterize the scientific and political uses of the concept. A systematic literature review is carried out on databases in English and Spanish, and 140 articles that consider environmental governance using various analytical frameworks are analyzed. The main finding is the predominance of a critical perspective on the effectiveness of environmental governance, as well as the associated institutional components and social organizations, because the democratic practices that should support it are questionable.
环境治理分析以及用于研究拉丁美洲这一概念的分析框架表明，该术语含义广泛且多义。治理一词是指在理论上鼓励行为体多元化参与决策的民主社会，以解决公共或集体社会环境问题。然而，在拉丁美洲，人们普遍认为存在民主赤字问题，这影响到社会环境领域。这项工作的目的是确定拉丁美洲环境治理研究的主要趋势、最常用的分析框架以及用于描述该概念的科学和政治用途的主要方法。对英语和西班牙语数据库进行了系统的文献回顾，并分析了 140 篇使用各种分析框架考虑环境治理的文章。主要发现是，对环境治理的有效性持批评态度的观点占据主导地位，以及与之相关的制度组成部分和社会组织，因为应该支持它的民主实践是有问题的。
