Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon

ISBN-13: 9780367333409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

Ed Atkins

Opis

This book focuses on how local, national and international civil society groups opposed to the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in the Brazilian Amazon. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice and Development Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Redesigning Hydrology  3. Damming the Amazon  4. ‘By hook or by crook’  5. Belo Monstro  6. "A country that cannot live with difference"  7. Refusing to Celebrate Victory  8. Final Remarks  Appendix  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Ed Atkins is a Lecturer at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK, where he conducts interdisciplinary research on the ways in which environmental and energy policy are negotiated. This is with a particular focus on working to ensure a just energy transition.