Environmental Resistance and the Politics of Energy Development in the Brazilian Amazon
نویسنده
چکیده
Author’s Note: Financial support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, Brazil Mission, Environment Program, and from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation helped this research. The author thanks D. Nepstad for ideas and suggestions that helped shape this research, and three anonymous reviewers and the editorial staff for their invaluable comments. Thanks are due to P. Lefebvre who prepared the map, and K. Schwalbe and W. Kingerlee who assisted with manuscript preparation. The Journal of Environment & Development Volume 15 Number 3 September 2006 245-268 © 2006 Sage Publications 10.1177/1070496506291575 http://jed.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.com Environmental Resistance and the Politics of Energy Development in the Brazilian Amazon
منابع مشابه
Environmental Change , Security , and Social Conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon
The links among environmental change, notions of security, and social conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon are multiple and complex. Successive Brazilian governments and the Brazilian military have found a distinct relationship between environmental matters and security issues through a focus on state sovereignty. This relationship is often articulated in terms of defending national sovereignty in...
متن کاملThe nexus of renewable energy - sustainable development - environmental quality in Iran: Bayesian VAR approach
The use of renewable energy reduces environmental pollution and leads to achievement of sustainable development. The current study investigates the dynamic interrelationship between sustainable development, renewable and non-renewable energies and environment nexus by applying Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) and impulse response functions in Iran with an annual data frequency for the time...
متن کاملBrazil’s Energy Divide: Sustainable Energy Alternatives for the Brazilian Amazon Region
The insertion of the Brazilian Amazon region into the Brazilian and global economies is one of the challenges faced by the Brazilian economy. Accounting for 60% of the Brazilian territory, the region will play a key role in shaping the future growth and development of the Brazilian economy in the next decades. Energy availability has been the region’s main economic bottleneck. The energy divide...
متن کاملTerritorializing land conflict: Space, place, and contentious politics in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil possesses a long history of violent struggle for land, and its most recent phase is occurring predominantly in the Amazon Basin. Consequently, this paper attempts to territorialize land conflict in the Brazilian Amazon, and in so doing, to illuminate the place-specific intersection of historic social, political, and economic circumstance that created a violent landscape in the so-called ...
متن کاملThere s nothing inherent about scale: political ecology, the local trap, and the politics of development in the Brazilian Amazon
This paper argues that research in political ecology would benefit from more explicit and careful attention to the question of scale and scalar politics. Although political ecologists have extensively considered scale as a methodological question, they have yet to develop an explicit theoretical approach to scale as an object of inquiry. We highlight one principal drawback to this underdevelope...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006