Sozio-ökologische Konflikte in Kolumbien

This doctoral thesis shows how peasant social movements and government institutions negotiate access to and the use of natural resources, identity and territorio in the Colombian ecoregion of Macizo Colombiano in socio-ecological conflicts. This analysis also considers the historical and geographical context and the power relations between the groups of actors.
The aim of this work is to record the problems, causes, strategies for action and existing approaches to solving the aforementioned socio-environmental conflicts by applying ethnographic methods from the perspective of political ecology and action theory.
Constructions of human–environment relationships and their significance for development are also analysed.