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Author Issberner, Liz-Rejane

Title Brazil in the Anthropocene : Conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (385 pages)
Series Routledge Environmental Humanities
Routledge environmental humanities.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Anthropocene in Brazil: an inquiry into development obsession and policy limits; Part I Development dynamics and social-environmental contradictions; 1 Brazil in the history of the Anthropocene; 2 Population, development and environmental degradation in Brazil; 3 The Amazon before the Brazilian environmental issue; 4 Deregulation, relocation and environmental conflict: considerations on the control of social demands in contemporary Brazil
5 Markets or the Commons? The role of indigenous peoples, traditional communities and sectors of the peasantry in the environmental crisisPart II Controversy and disinformation; 6 Planned disinformation: the example of the Belo Monte Dam as a source of greenhouse gases; 7 Biosafety regulations, practices and consequences in Brazil: who wants to hide the problems?; 8 Tax incentive for pesticides: a debate on its (un)constitutionality from the environmental rule of law and the environmental public order; Part III Facing the consequences of climate change
9 From co-leader to loner: Brazilian wavering positions in climate change negotiations10 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; 11 Shaping up Brazil's long-term development considering climate change impacts; 12 Pathways to a low carbon economy in Brazil; Part IV Environmental governance; 13 Financing sustainability: where has all the money gone?; 14 Climate change and the integration of public policies
15 Environment policy and governance in Brazil: challenge sand prospects16 Collective forest reserves in agrarian reform settlements: measures to prevent a non-commons tragedy in the Brazilian Amazon; Are the multiple social-ecological initiatives the sign of a political and cultural shift?; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Environmental policy -- Brazil
Sustainable development -- Government policy -- Brazil
Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil
Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Brazil
Climatic changes -- Government policy.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Sustainable development -- Government policy.
Umweltpolitik
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Brazil.
Brasilien
Form Electronic book
Author Léna, Philippe
ISBN 9781134844296
1134844298