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 Challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. This title tells the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out! analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment and the interplay of those efforts with transnational environmentalism. 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

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• Autori: Kathryn Hochstetler, Kathryn Keck Hochstetler, Kathryn/ Keck Hochstetler, Margaret E Keck, Margaret E. Keck
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.08.2007
• EAN: 9780822340485
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4048-5
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie