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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484708503321

Titolo

Environment and development : challenges, policies and practices / / Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-55416-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

338.927

Soggetti

Sustainable development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I Introduction -- 1 Environmental Roots of Development Problems -- Part II Understanding the Environment and Development Nexus -- 2 Healthy Cities, Diseasogenic Cities and the Global South -- 3 Regenerating the Socio-Ecological Quality of Urban Streams: The Potential of a Social Learning Approach -- 4 A Systems Analysis Approach to Addressing Contemporary Water Challenges: Management Improvements in Brazil and Beyond -- 5 Doce River Large-Scale Environmental Catastrophe: Decision and Policy-Making Outcomes -- 6 What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up? The Political Dimensions of Climate Change in Brazil, China and Mozambique -- 7 Colombia’s Developmental and Socioecological Trajectory and the Mounting Risks Associated with the 2016 Havana Accord -- 8 Cerca del Rio y Lejos del Agua: Water, Autonomy, and Hope in the Ecuadorian Andes -- 9 ‘The Best-Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’: Transformative Agency Towards Ecosocialism -- Part III The Lived Environment and Development of the Amazon Region -- 10 The Indigenous Politics of Belonging: Opposing Neoliberal Extractivism with Ethical Cosmologies -- 11 Voiceless Development, Toxic Injustice, Criminal Resistance: A Study of Peruvian Natural Resource Extraction Through the Political Ecology of Voice -- 12 Ethnogenesis and Environmentalism in Contemporary Brazilian Amazonia: A Study in Comparative Frontier History -- 13 Brazilian National Integration Policies and the Amazon: Discourses of Modernisation Between the Past and the Present -- 14 Unintended



Consequences of ‘Development’ in the Amazon: Commercial Aquaculture and Malaria in Mâncio Lima, Brazil -- 15 Political Economy of Amazon Development and Hydropower Construction -- 16 Water Governance and the Hydrosocial Territory of the Teles Pires River Basin in the Brazilian Amazon -- 17 La Via Campesina’s Agroecological Militancy at a Crossroads: New Research Avenues for Amazonian Studies -- 18 Oxford Letter for the Amazon.