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.

El presente libro es resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo por abordar algunas de las paradojas que traviesan el territorio amazónico en la región andina. Estas paradojas se configuran alrededor de la contradicción entre la preponderancia de este territorio como fuente de riqueza y la visión histórica estatal que lo ha considerado como espacio marginal. El cambio del milenio ha incorporado nuevos fenómenos económicos, políticos y ambientales que repercuten en condiciones sociales que mantienen y, quizá, agudizan dicha condición.