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Author Barbosa, Luiz C

Title Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest : environmental organizations and development / Luiz C. Barbosa
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Brazilian developmentalism and environmentalist challenges -- 3. The mahogany moratorium -- 4. The case of the Soy Moratorium -- 5. Boycotts of illegally produced beef and leather -- 6. The case of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam -- 7. Conservative reactions -- 8. Collaboration -- 9. Conclusions
Summary 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 analyzes 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 the country's sovereignty over Its own resources
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Environmental protection -- Amazon River Region
Environmental protection -- Brazil -- Societies, etc
Deforestation -- Political aspects -- Amazon River Region
Rain forest conservation -- Political aspects -- Amazon River Region
Environmental policy -- Amazon River Region
Deforestation -- Political aspects.
Environmental policy.
Environmental protection.
Environmental protection -- Societies, etc.
Amazon River Region.
Brazil.
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