Flooded development, democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Nature, society, and culture.
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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