What is being said in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon? Narratives that shape environmental cooperation
This blog presents a new study on the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon network, examining how environmental narratives influence cooperation among conservation organizations and shape governance dynamics in the region.
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What is being said in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon? Narratives that shape environmental cooperation
This blog presents a new study on the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon network, examining how environmental narratives influence cooperation among conservation organizations and shape governance dynamics in the region.
In the blog on institutional networks protecting the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon, we showed that environmental governance in the region depends on a broad network of organizations and technologies, but with clear fragilities: low network density—that is, limited direct interaction among many nodes—strong dependence on a few highly connected actors, and limited articulation between institutions in Colombia and Peru. Additionally, we observed that international organizations function as key bridges that partially compensate for these gaps, connecting national and local actors that would otherwise remain more isolated.
Our paper Navigating the Map of Environmental-policy Narratives and its Influence within the Conservation Network of the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon we ask what institutional narratives actors use—that is, the organizations that operate or intervene in the Colombian–Peruvian Amazon—and how these discourses influence cooperation.