Hydropower in authoritarian Brazil an environmental history of low-carbon energy, 1960s-90s
Setting the scene : dictatorship and industrial growth -- Building the "big dam" : economic and political considerations during planning, 1960s-1970s -- Pharaonic environmentalism : mitigation efforts during planning and reservoir filling, 1970s-1980s -- Negotiating with floodwaters : impa...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, New York, NY, Port Melbourne, VIC, New Delhi, Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in environment and history
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Dams
> Environmental aspects
> Political aspects
> Social aspects
> Water-power
> History
> Dictatorship
> Brazi
> Politics and government
> Brazil
> Environmental conditions
> Brasilien
> Diktatur
> Wasserkraft
> Staudamm
> Bau
> Umweltschaden
> Indigenes Volk
> Lebensbedingungen
> Geschichte 1960-2000
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Setting the scene : dictatorship and industrial growth -- Building the "big dam" : economic and political considerations during planning, 1960s-1970s -- Pharaonic environmentalism : mitigation efforts during planning and reservoir filling, 1970s-1980s -- Negotiating with floodwaters : impacts on displaced communities, 1970s-1990s -- Environmental transformations : impacts on national parks, fish, parks, fish, and malaria, 1970s-1990s -- The notorious Balbina Dam : the dictatorship's last and most infamous dam, 1980s-1990s -- Aftermath : the anti-dam movement, social injustice, and climate change, 1990s-2010s. "In the later twentieth century, Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship built a spate of low carbon hydropower dams to electrify its cities and industries. The costs fell disproportionately on Indigenous communities and the environment. Johnson examines the implications across Brazil alongside global questions of politics and environmentalism"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 307 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781009428699 978-1-009-42869-9 9781009428705 978-1-009-42870-5 |