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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Environmental humanities seriesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, earthscan from Routledge, 2017Description: xv, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138684201 (hbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GE190.B6 B73 2017
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.
Action note:
  • Cataloging Notes: 20240506 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Cataloging Notes: 20240506 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199

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