Brazil in the Anthropocene: Conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies / Edition 1

by Liz-Rejane Issberner, Philippe Léna

Overview

Brazil is considered one of the world’s most important environmental powers. With a continental territory containing almost 70 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, along with a rich biodiversity and huge amount of natural resources, its geopolitical role in environmental decisions is crucial to ongoing global negotiations surrounding climate change.

Development policies based on extraction and exportation of raw materials by the mining and agribusiness sectors threaten the global environmental balance and the long-term sustainability of Brazil’s economy. Brazil in the Anthropocene examines Brazil's role within the global ecological crisis and considers how national and international policy is influenced by the interdependence of social, political, ethical, scientific and economic factors in the modern age.

With chapters from a diverse range of international scholars this interdisciplinary volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, environmental sociology and the environmental humanities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138684201
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/09/2016
Series:	Routledge Environmental Humanities
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Liz-Rejane Issberner, Philippe Léna

Table of Contents

Anthropocene in Brazil: an inquiry into development obsession and policy limits PHILIPPE LÉNA AND LIZ-REJANE ISSBERNER PART I Development dynamics and social-environmental contradictions 1 Brazil in the history of the Anthropocene JOSÉ AUGUSTO PÁDUA 2 Population, development and environmental degradationin Brazil JOSÉ EUSTÁQUIO DINIZ ALVES AND GEORGE MARTINE 3 The Amazon before the Brazilian environmental issue VIOLETA REFSKALEVSKY LOUREIRO 4 Deregulation, relocation and environmental conflict –considerations on the control of social demands in contemporary Brazil HENRI ACSELRAD AND GUSTAVO NEVES BEZERRA 5 Markets or the Commons? The role of indigenous peoples, traditional communities and sectors of the peasantry in the environmental crisis JEAN-PIERRE LEROY PART II Controversy and disinformation 6 Planned disinformation: the example of the Belo Monte dam as a source of greenhouse gases PHILIP M. FEARNSIDE 7 Biosafety regulations and practices and consequences in Brazil: who wants to hide the problems? LEONARDO MELGAREJO 8 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 PART III Facing the consequences of climate change 9 From co-leader to loner: Brazilian wavering positions in climate change negotiations LARISSA BASSO AND EDUARDO VIOLA 10 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 11 Shaping up Brazil’s long-term development considering climate change impacts SÉRGIO MARGULIS AND NATALIE UNTERSTELL 12 Pathways to a low carbon economy in Brazil EMILIO LÈBRE LA ROVERE, CLAUDIO GESTEIRA, CAROLINA GROTERA AND WILLIAM WILLS 13 Financing sustainability: where has all the money gone? LADISLAU DOWBOR 14 Climate change and the integration of public policies MARCEL BURSZTYN AND MARIA AUGUSTA BURSZTYN 15 Environment policy and governance in Brazil: challenges and prospects ADRIANA MARIA MAGALHÃES DE MOURA 16 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 apolitical and cultural shift? PHILIPPE LÉNA AND LIZ-REJANE ISSBERNER

Editorial Reviews

In this important new book, the editors and authors make creative and insightful use of the Anthropocene concept as a way of understanding Brazil as a totality, while shedding new light on the concept itself. The volume represents a vital intellectual convergence essential for anyone wanting to grasp the changing Brazilian dispensation. Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia, co-editor of The Anthropocene and Global Environmental Crisis

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