Brazil in the anthropocene : conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Issberner, Liz-Rejane (Editor), Léna, Philippe (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Environmental humanities.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.