Brazil in the Anthropocene: Conflicts Between Predatory Development and Environmental Policies

ISBN-13: 9781138315907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str.

Liz-Rejane Issberner; Philippe Lena

Opis

This book examines Brazil's position in the global ecological crisis and how social, political, ethical, scientific and economic issues affect its environmental performance.

Recenzje

In this important new book, the editors and authors make creative and insightful use of the Anthropocene concept as a way of understanding Brazil as a totality, while shedding new light on the concept itself. The volume represents a vital intellectual convergence essential for anyone wanting to grasp the changing Brazilian dispensation. Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia, co-editor of The Anthropocene and Global Environmental Crisis

O autorze

Liz-Rejane Issberner, economist, is Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Institute on Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) and Professor at the Post-Graduate Programme in Information Science (IBICT with Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Her interdisciplinary research involves information and political ecology as well as eco-innovations and science, technology and social change.

Philippe Léna, geographer and sociologist, is Emeritus Researcher at the Research Institute for Development (IRD-France) and the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN, Paris, France). He has collaborated since 1980 with Brazilian research institutions like INPA (National Institute for Amazonian Research), MPEG (Museum Emílio Goeldi of Pará) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), conducting research on social-ecological issues in Amazonia.