Brazil in the Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

Conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies
Redaktion: Issberner, Liz-Rejane; Léna, Philippe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Brazil's position in the global ecological crisis and how social, political, ethical, scientific and economic issues affect its environmental performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134844296
• Artikelnr.: 47392913

Autorenporträt

Liz-Rejane Issberner, Philippe Léna

Inhaltsangabe

Anthropocene in Brazil: an inquiry into development obsession and policy
limits PHILIPPE LÉNA AND LIZ-REJANE ISSBERNER PART I Development dynamics
and social-environmental contradictions 1 Brazil in the history of the
Anthropocene JOSÉ AUGUSTO PÁDUA 2 Population, development and environmental
degradationin Brazil JOSÉ EUSTÁQUIO DINIZ ALVES AND GEORGE MARTINE 3 The
Amazon before the Brazilian environmental issue VIOLETA REFSKALEVSKY
LOUREIRO 4 Deregulation, relocation and environmental conflict
-considerations on the control of social demands in contemporary Brazil
HENRI ACSELRAD AND GUSTAVO NEVES BEZERRA 5 Markets or the Commons? The role
of indigenous peoples, traditional communities and sectors of the peasantry
in the environmental crisis JEAN-PIERRE LEROY PART II Controversy and
disinformation 6 Planned disinformation: the example of the Belo Monte dam
as a source of greenhouse gases PHILIP M. FEARNSIDE 7 Biosafety regulations
and practices and consequences in Brazil: who wants to hide the problems?
LEONARDO MELGAREJO 8 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 PART III Facing the consequences of climate change 9 From
co-leader to loner: Brazilian wavering positions in climate change
negotiations LARISSA BASSO AND EDUARDO VIOLA 10 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 11 Shaping up
Brazil's long-term development considering climate change impacts SÉRGIO
MARGULIS AND NATALIE UNTERSTELL 12 Pathways to a low carbon economy in
Brazil EMILIO LÈBRE LA ROVERE, CLAUDIO GESTEIRA, CAROLINA GROTERA AND
WILLIAM WILLS 13 Financing sustainability: where has all the money gone?
LADISLAU DOWBOR 14 Climate change and the integration of public policies
MARCEL BURSZTYN AND MARIA AUGUSTA BURSZTYN 15 Environment policy and
governance in Brazil: challenges and prospects ADRIANA MARIA MAGALHÃES DE
MOURA 16 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 apolitical and cultural
shift? PHILIPPE LÉNA AND LIZ-REJANE ISSBERNER