Brazil in the anthropocene : conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies / edited by Liz-Rejane Issberner and Philippe Léna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Issberner, Liz-Rejane, editor.

Léna, Philippe, editor.

ebrary, Inc.

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Series:

Routledge environmental humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Brazil.

Environmental policy.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Sustainable development--Government policy.

Sustainable development.

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Brazil.

Economic development--Environmental aspects--Brazil.

Economic development.

Sustainable development--Government policy--Brazil.

Climatic changes--Government policy--Brazil.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 368 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers. With a continental territory containing almost 70 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, along with a rich biodiversity and huge amount of natural resources, its geopolitical role in environmental decisions is crucial to ongoing global negotiations surrounding climate change. Development policies based on extraction and exportation of raw materials by the mining and agribusiness sectors threaten the global environmental balance and the long-term sustainability of Brazil's economy. Brazil in the Anthropocene examines Brazil's role within the global ecological crisis and considers how national and international policy is influenced by the interdependence of social, political, ethical, scientific and economic factors in the modern age. With chapters from a diverse range of international scholars this interdisciplinary volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, environmental sociology and the environmental humanities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Brazil in the history of the anthropocene / José Augusto Pádua

Population, development and environmental degradation in Brazil / José Eustáquio Diniz Alves and George Martine

The Amazon before the Brazilian environmental issue / Violeta Refskalevsky Loureiro

Deregulation, relocation and environmental conflict : considerations on the control of social demands in contemporary Brazil / Henri Acselrad and Gustavo Neves Bezerra

Markets or the commons? : the role of indigenous peoples, traditional communities and sectors of the peasantry in the environmental crisis / Jean-Pierre Leroy

Planned disinformation : the example of the Belo Monte dam as a source of greenhouse gases / Philip M. Fearnside

Biosafety regulations and practices and consequences in Brazil : who wants to hide the problems? / Leonardo Melgarejo

Tax incentive for pesticides : a debate on its (un)constitutionality from the environmental rule of law and the environmental public order / João Alfredo Telles Melo and Geovana de Oliveira Patrício Marques

From co-leader to loner : understanding the Brazilian wavering positions in climate change negotiations / Larissa Basso and Eduardo Viola

From environmental information to precaution in the face of environmental risks : an analysis of Brazil's National Policy on Climate Change and rulings by higher courts / Carlos José Saldanha Machado and Rodrigo Machado Vilani

Shaping up Brazil's long-term development considering climate change impacts / Sérgio Margulis and Natalie Unterstell

Pathways to a low carbon economy in Brazil / Emilio Lèbre La Rovere, Claudio Gesteira, Carolina Grotera and William Wills

Financing sustainability : where has all the money gone? / Ladislau Dowbor

Climate change and the integration of public policies / Marcel Bursztyn and Maria Augusta Bursztyn

Environment policy and governance in Brazil : challenges and prospects / Adriana Maria Magalhães de Moura

Collective forest reserves in agrarian reform settlements: measures to prevent a non-commons tragedy in the Brazilian Amazon / Peter May, Robert Davenport, Pedro Nogueira and Paulo César Nunes

Are the multiple social-ecological initiatives the sign of a political and cultural shift? / Philippe Léna and Liz-Rejane Issberner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

ISBN:

9781134844296

1134844298

Publisher Number:

99971565699

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