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

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Book
Language
English
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  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
xv, 368 pages ; 25 cm.

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    Series
    Routledge environmental humanities [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781138684201 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    • 1138684201 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2016022164
    OCLC
    950445007
    Other standard number
    • 40026901890
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