Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development write by Luiz C. Barbosa. This book was released on 2015-05-08. Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region, particularly for mineral ores, soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation, through boycotting certain products, while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources.
Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development
Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development write by Luiz C. Barbosa. This book was released on 2015-05-08. Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region, particularly for mineral ores, soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation, through boycotting certain products, while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources.
Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon
Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon write by Ed Atkins. This book was released on 2020-11-15. Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon, Ed Atkins focuses on how local, national, and international civil society groups have resisted the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in Brazil. In doing so, Atkins explores how contemporary opposition to hydropower projects demonstrate a form of ‘contested sustainability’ that highlights the need for sustainable energy transitions to take more into account than merely greenhouse gas emissions. The assertion that society must look to successfully transition away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources often appears assured in contemporary environmental governance. However, what is less certain is who decides which forms of energy are deemed ‘sustainable.’ Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon explores one process in which the sustainability of a ‘green’ energy source is contested. It focuses on how civil society actors have both challenged and reconfigured dominant pro-dam assertions that present the hydropower schemes studied as renewable energy projects that contribute to sustainable development agendas. The volume also examines in detail how anti-dam actors act to render visible the political interests behind a project, whilst at the same time linking the resistance movement to wider questions of contemporary environmental politics. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development, sustainable energy transitions, environmental justice, environmental governance, and development studies.
Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics
Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics write by Walter Leal Filho. This book was released on 2020-08-04. Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together a valuable collection of case studies and conceptual approaches that outline the present state of Amazonia in the 21st century. The many problems are described and the benefits, as well as the achievements of regional development are also discussed. The book focuses on three themes for discussion and recommendations: indigenous peoples, their home (the forest), and the way(s) to protect and sustain their natural home (biodiversity conservation). Using these three themes this volume offers a comprehensive critical review of the facts that have been the reality of Amazonia and fills a gap in the literature.The book will appeal to scholars, professors and practitioners. An outstanding group of experienced researchers and individuals with detailed knowledge of the proposed themes have produced chapters on an array of inter-related issues to demonstrate the current situation and future prospects of Amazonia. Issues investigated and debated include: territorial management; indigenous territoriality and land demarcation; ethnodevelopment; indigenous higher education and capacity building; natural resource appropriation; food security and traditional knowledge; megadevelopmental projects; indigenous acculturation; modernization of Amazonia and its regional integration; anthropogenic interventions; protected areas and conservation; political ecology; postcolonial issues, and the sustainability of Amazonia.
The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest
The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest write by Luiz C. Barbosa. This book was released on 2000. The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barbosa (sociology, San Francisco State University) provides a global, world-systemic analysis of the problem of deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. He shows how changes in global ecopolitics demanding sustainable development, coupled with the onset of democracy in Brazil, substantially altered the battle over the future of Amazonia. He describes deforestation in the region in the context of an expanding frontier of global capitalism, and compares Amazon experiences with those of Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
