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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...

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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.
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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