Through the Looking Glass Environmental Sociology in Latin America by Dr. Marilia Coutinho

“Environmental sociology” is not a well defined field; Sociology, as a discipline, has developed through different paths in Latin America and the United States; The “environment”, with which society is supposed to have a relationship, is not the same regardless of our standing point; Problems

“Environmental sociology” is not a well defined field;

Sociology, as a discipline, has developed through different paths in Latin America and the United States;

The “environment”, with which society is supposed to have a relationship, is not the same regardless of our standing point;

From: Ecological Metaphors and Environmental Rhetoric: an Analysis of The Ecologist and Our Common Future . Environment and History 3(2): 177-195, 1997

Resources for S&T available military regime development programs higher education reform Stockholm 72 Follows “Limits to Growth” (1972) Crisis in higher education and research funding democracy (1985) NGO’s Rio 92 Follows “Our Common Future” (1987)

Resources for S&T available

military regime

development programs

higher education reform

Stockholm 72

Follows “Limits to Growth” (1972)

Crisis in higher education and research funding

democracy (1985)

NGO’s

Rio 92

Follows “Our Common Future” (1987)

Foreign background Programs Proportion of faculty with foreign Ph.D.'s

Does it make a difference?

not likely

Resources for S&T available military regime development programs higher education reform Stockholm 72 Follows “Limits to Growth” (1972) Crisis in higher education and research funding democracy (1985) NGO’s Rio 92 Follows “Our Common Future” (1987)

Resources for S&T available

military regime

development programs

higher education reform

Stockholm 72

Follows “Limits to Growth” (1972)

Crisis in higher education and research funding

democracy (1985)

NGO’s

Rio 92

Follows “Our Common Future” (1987)

Number of researchers

Percentage of Ph.D.'s

Agrarian reform settlements

Land occupation

T. cruzi causes Chagas Disease

Vector

One continent, united by poverty and T. cruzi Argentina Chile Paraguay Brazil

Participants in CD Conference New Authors in CD

T. cruzi causes Chagas Disease

People

The challenge of malaria

Schistosomiasis