Environment

María Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) no solo fue una destacada artista de su época, experta en dibujo, pintura, grabado y aguafuerte. También sentía pasión por el estudio de los fenómenos biológicos, como las plantas de las que se alimentan las orugas y la metamorfosis de las mariposas. Las etapas de su vida la llevaron de Fráncfort a Núremberg y Frisia Occidental, y finalmente a Ámsterdam. En 1699, a los 52 años, partió de Holanda hacia Surinam, en Sudamérica, para realizar un viaje de investigación.

Conflicts and struggles like urbanization processes and the productive use of water have impacted the relationship of Latin American and Caribbean societies with water for centuries. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on water in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions enrich contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.

Biodiversity should not be understood in biological terms only and as a thing apart from society, but rather as biocultural diversity present in the social world and in various cultures. Such a perspective might allow to relieve social conflicts as well as abuses of power, and slow the appropriation of the biosphere. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on biodiversity in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene.

Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonization, spatial appropriation, and the commodification of land. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on land use in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene.