Abstract

RODRIGUEZ ECHAVARRIA, Tania. Environmental governance in transboundary basins: The Sixaola River Basin (Costa Rica-Panamá). Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.87, pp.71-99.  Epub Nov 20, 2019. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/872019/atc3/rodriguezechavarriat.

The Sixaola river basin is considered by international organizations as a border region prone to the development of projects that promote environmental governance. In this context, with the support of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the creation of the Sixaola Basin Binational Commission was promoted, a multi-stakeholder platform (PMA) that sought to promote the integrated management of the basin. However, this article seeks to analyze its architecture, representativeness and legitimacy. This is due to the fact that this commission has been questioned, on the one hand, due to the fact that not all the key actors of the basin participate in it and, on the other hand, because its political agenda does not incorporate one of the main environmental problems of this border: the contamination and expansion of banana and plantain monocultures. Is this multi-actor platform a structure that fosters the governance of these shared resources?

Keywords : Border; Multi-stakeholder platforms; environment; basins.

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