Greening Brazil - Environmental Activism in State and Society

Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck Klappentext Authoritative work on the complex history of modern Brazilian environmental policy and its relation to both transnational politics and domestic democratization processes. Zusammenfassung Traces Brazil's complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time! from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive 'socio-environmentalism' which seeks to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables viii Preface ix List of Acronyms and Organizations xv Introduction 1 1. Building Environmental Institutions: National Environmental Politics and Policy 23 2. National Environmental Activism: The Changing Terms of Engagement 63 3. From Protest to Project: The Third Wave of Environmental Activism 97 4. Amazonia 140 5. From Pollution Control to Sustainable Cities 186 Conclusion 223 Appendix: List of Interviews 231 Notes 239 Bibliography 249 Index 273

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kathryn Hochstetler, Kathryn Keck Hochstetler, Margaret E Keck, Margaret E. Keck
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.08.2007
• EAN: 9780822340317
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4031-7
• Pagine: 304
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie