Climate Change in Regional Perspective

This Open Access book addresses climate change in Europe and Latin America from a comparative regionalism studies (CRS) perspective. Written by an international team of scholars and experts, chapters critically analyze proposals for mitigating climate change while contributing to the mutual understanding about the issues at stake across regions. The book is divided into three main sections. In the first section, authors discuss EU and Latin American cooperation, negotiations, and perspectives on climate change, exploring their agendas, the interests and key challenges at the global, regional and interregional levels. The second section focuses on the challenges to finance development and a greener economy. The third section explores new green solutions to climate change in the agriculture sector and initiatives such as nature-based solutions to climate change and best practices. Providing policy oriented solutions for combatting regional climate change at a critical juncture, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of international relations, international law, and environmental politics, as well as public officials and climate change activists.

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann is Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics (UK), University of Erfurt and the Free University of Berlin (Germany). Her teaching and research interests include democracy and legitimacy in international politics, Latin American regionalism, and relations between the EU and Latin America, Paula Sandrin is Professor of International Relations atthe Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil , with a doctorate and master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Westminster (UK) and a degree in Social Communication from PUC-Rio. She is co-editor of the journal Contexto Internacional: Journal of Global Connections. Her teaching and research interests include the role of affects and emotions in global politics and economics; psychoanalytic approaches in IR; racial issues in IR; and relations between the European Union and Turkey.Yannis E. Doukas is Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). He holds a PhD in the Political Economy of the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His teaching and research interests include agricultural policy, agricultural economics, food security and crisis and International and European economics. He has worked as special adviser to the Minister for Rural Development and Food (Greece). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Region & Periphery and member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation for Mediterranean Studies (Greece).