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The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)
region has a unique mix of qualities and challenges when it
comes to the environment. It is exceptionally endowed with
natural assets, with globally significant biodiversity and
valuable crops, and also harbors the world s greatest carbon
sink in the Amazon. The purpose of the series is to
contribute to the global knowledge exchange on innovation in
environmental and water resources management and the pursuit
of greener and more inclusive growth. The series addresses
issues relevant to the region s environmental sustainability
agenda from water resources management to environmental
health, natural resource management, biodiversity
conservation, environmental policy, pollution management,
environmental institutions and governance, ecosystem
services, environmental financing, irrigation and climate
change and their linkages to development and growth. The
author presents three successful case studies. The first
case study describes how Colombia designed and implemented
an air quality management program based on public awareness,
evidence-based policy design, and political commitment to
reform. The second case study examines how Brazil is
promoting access to environmental justice through the public
prosecutors model. A third case study shows how the modeling
of climate change and monitoring of glacial retreat in the
Andean countries is fostering decision making to address the
increasingly important challenge of climate change adaptation.
