Brazil in the anthropocene : conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies / / edited by Liz-Rejane Issberner and Philippe Lena

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155253703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-315-54406-7; 1-134-84429-8; 1-134-84422-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: routledgeenvironmental humanities
• Altri autori (Persone): IssbernerLiz-Rejane; LenaPhilippe
• Disciplina: 338.981/07
• Soggetti: Environmental policy - Brazil; Economic development - Environmental aspects - Brazil; Sustainable development - Government policy - Brazil; Climatic changes - Government policy - Brazil
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Brazil in the history of the anthropocene / José Augusto Pádua -- Population, development and environmental degradation in Brazil / José Eustáquio Diniz Alves and George Martine -- The Amazon before the Brazilian environmental issue / Violeta Refskalevsky Loureiro -- Deregulation, relocation and environmental conflict : considerations on the control of social demands in contemporary Brazil / Henri Acselrad and Gustavo Neves Bezerra -- Markets or the commons? : the role of indigenous peoples, traditional communities and sectors of the peasantry in the environmental crisis / Jean-Pierre Leroy -- Planned disinformation : the example of the Belo Monte dam as a source of greenhouse gases / Philip M. Fearnside -- Biosafety regulations and practices and consequences in Brazil : who wants to hide the problems? / Leonardo Melgarejo -- Tax incentive for pesticides : a debate on its (un)constitutionality from the environmental rule of law and the environmental public order / João Alfredo Telles Melo and Geovana de Oliveira Patrício Marques -- From co-leader to loner : understanding ; the Brazilian wavering positions in climate change negotiations / Larissa Basso and Eduardo Viola -- 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 / Carlos José Saldanha Machado and Rodrigo Machado Vilani -- Shaping up Brazil's long-term development considering climate change impacts / Sérgio Margulis and Natalie Unterstell -- Pathways to a low carbon economy in Brazil / Emilio Lèbre La Rovere, Claudio Gesteira, Carolina Grotera and William Wills -- Financing sustainability : where has all the money gone? / Ladislau Dowbor -- Climate change and the integration of public policies / Marcel Bursztyn and Maria Augusta Bursztyn -- Environment policy and governance in Brazil : challenges and prospects / Adriana Maria Magalhães de Moura -- Collective forest reserves in agrarian reform settlements: measures to prevent a non-commons tragedy in the Brazilian Amazon / Peter May, Robert Davenport, Pedro Nogueira and Paulo César Nunes -- Are the multiple social-ecological initiatives the sign of a political and cultural shift? / Philippe Léna and Liz-Rejane Issberner.