Agriculture's energy : the trouble with ethanol in Brazil's green revolution /

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"Thomas D. Rogers's history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program -- created in the 1970s by the nation's military regime -- aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country's economy. The National Alcohol Progr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rogers, Thomas D., 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Temas:
Programa Nacional do Alcool (Brazil) > History > 20th century.
Programa Nacional do Alcool (Brazil)
1900-1999
Ethanol fuel industry > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Agriculture and state > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Sugarcane industry > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Agriculture and energy > Social aspects > Brazil.
Agriculture and energy > Environmental aspects > Brazil.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Agriculture and state.
Ethanol fuel industry.
Sugarcane industry.
Brazil.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Indigent pariahs no more: agriculture in Brazilian development, 1918-1960
  • Alternative revolutions: imposing a developmental model, 1960-1975
  • Ordering Proálcool: the arc of the National Alcohol Program, 1975-1990
  • How Brazil's National Alcohol Program made a meal of rural workers
  • The unnecessary destruction of our rivers: water pollution and the environmental politics of ethanol production
  • Food and fuel: agriculture's hunger
  • Epilogue: Agriculture's renewed energy?

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