Greening Brazil

Greening Brazil

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780822340317
Untertitel:
Environmental Activism in State and Society
Genre:
Biologie
Autor:
Kathryn Hochstetler, Margaret E. Keck
Herausgeber:
Duke University Press
Anzahl Seiten:
304
Erscheinungsdatum:
29.08.2007
ISBN:
978-0-8223-4031-7

Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Hochstetler is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She is a coauthor of Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences and a coeditor of Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics.Margaret E. Keck is Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil and a coauthor of Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. 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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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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