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differences in their specific characteristics due to diverging historical and political developments—both on a regional and on a national level—and their specific natural, social, and cultural environments and regional identity politics. The theme of water is

overarching scale of analysis that measures national rates of land cover change as well as regional trends. What is common through this chapter of Brazil’s deforestation saga is that both policy and economic trends have been central to the narrative; they are

, but as a means to transform Ecuadorian society by giving visibility to a new form of national patrimony and opening possibilities for redefining social consciousness and collective identity: Ecuador seeks to transform old notions of economics and the

literature corpuses, particularly when excellent reviews already exist ( Button 2010 ; Hoffman and Oliver-Smith 2002 ; National Research Council 2006 ; Tierney and Oliver-Smith 2012 ). However, it is useful to highlight certain theoretical assumptions and

a European standard of fair chase in hunting” (2013: 449). While Mahoney and Jackson sketch this history with the NAM explicitly in mind, the link between hunting, conservation, and the history of the emergence of an American national identity is

attribute these crises to inequality in local, national, and global social structures. Downey, as a macro-structural environmental sociologist (MSES), opines that local, national, and global social structures are to be blamed for social and environmental

to act has been accepted only relatively recently and a fragile national agenda for mitigation and adaptation is slowly emerging. State and especially local governments have, to various extents, been developing their own approaches to the problem

Development, Decolonization, and National Liberation With this article, I hope to make a significant contribution both to the traditions of Diné resistance that seek to carry Diné life into the future and to the careful scholarly work that has been

simply a social relationship, but rather “a vast field of cultural as well as social relations … symbolic as well as the material contexts within which things are recognized and personal as well as collective identities are made” ( Hann 1998: 5

. Today, in-group/out-group dynamics are complex, and group boundaries are more flexible than they have been historically. Even national identity is not static but rather derived through a dynamic relational process ( Lamont and Molnár 2002 ). Cooperation