Flooded development, democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam /

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"Contemporary dam construction is markedly different from what it was in the middle of the twentieth century, when governments ignored the negative impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued to use dams to promote growth, but have...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klein, Peter Taylor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Colección:Nature, society, and culture.
Temas:
Belo Monte (Power plant) > Social aspects.
Belo Monte (Power plant)
Dams > Social aspects > Brazil > Pará (State)
Hydroelectric power plants > Social aspects > Brazil > Pará (State)
Sustainable development > Brazil > Pará (State)
Environmental policy > Brazil.
Barrages > Aspect social > Brésil > Pará (État)
Centrales hydroélectriques > Aspect social > Brésil > Pará (État)
Développement durable > Brésil > Pará (État)
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Brésil.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Dams > Social aspects
Ecology
Environmental policy
Hydroelectric power plants > Social aspects
Social aspects
Social conditions
Sustainable development
Xingu River (Brazil) > Environmental conditions.
Pará (Brazil : State) > Social conditions.
Xingu (Brésil : Rivière) > Conditions environnementales.
Pará (Brésil : État) > Conditions sociales.
Brazil
Brazil > Pará (State)
Brazil > Xingu River
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PROLOGUE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part I HYDROPOWER, RESISTANCE, AND THE STATE
  • 1 • DAMS AND DEVELOPMENT
  • 2 • BOOMS, BUSTS, AND COLLECTIVE MOBILIZATION ALONG THE TRANSAMAZON
  • 3 • DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENTALISM
  • Part II AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF DAM BUILDING
  • 4 • THE LIVING PROCESS
  • 5 • THE FIGHT FOR RECOGNITION
  • 6 • THE LAW, ACTIVISM, AND LEGITIMACY
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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