Description
Brazil in the Anthropocene
Conflicts between predatory development and environmental policies
Routledge Environmental Humanities Series
Coordinators: Issberner Liz-Rejane, Léna Philippe
Language: EnglishSubjects for Brazil in the Anthropocene:
Keywords
Belo Monte; Ministry Of The Environment; Anthropocene; Brazilian Government; ecological crisis; IBGE; history of the anthropocene; Energy Sources; Amazon; Energy Policy; climate policy; Climate Change; environmental policy; UN; biodiversity conservation; Quilombos; enivronmental justice; Great Acceleration; disinformation; ICMBio; Belo Monte dam; Energy Eciency; biosafety regulation; ANVISA; Commodities Frontier; Gdp Growth; IPI; Redd; Reduce GHG Emission; Climate Risks; DDP; Tv Star; Environmental Issues; Amazon Region; Transgenic Crops
Publication date: 12-2016
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 06-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Brazil is considered one of the world?s most important environmental powers. With a continental territory containing almost 70 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, along with a rich biodiversity and huge amount of natural resources, its geopolitical role in environmental decisions is crucial to ongoing global negotiations surrounding climate change.
Development policies based on extraction and exportation of raw materials by the mining and agribusiness sectors threaten the global environmental balance and the long-term sustainability of Brazil?s economy. Brazil in the Anthropocene examines Brazil's role within the global ecological crisis and considers how national and international policy is influenced by the interdependence of social, political, ethical, scientific and economic factors in the modern age.
With chapters from a diverse range of international scholars this interdisciplinary volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, environmental sociology and the environmental humanities.