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Author Atkins, Ed

Title Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (237 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Ser
Routledge Studies in Sustainability Ser
Contents Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Why how we talk about 'sustainability' matters -- Research strategy -- Chapter outline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Redesigning hydrology -- Moments of consolidation -- The role of storylines -- Moments of contestation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Damming the Amazon -- The projects studied -- Pro-dam coalition -- The resistance coalition -- A history of resistance
The pro-dam storyline of sustainability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 'By hook or by crook' -- The 'head carnival float' and the circumvention of dissent -- Suspensões de Segurança -- Lava Jato -- Jornadas de Junho -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Belo Monstro -- Official assessments -- 'Rendering technical' -- 'Rendering visible' -- The tragedy of Altamira -- 'Indirect' and cumulative downstream impacts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 'A country that cannot live with difference' -- The impacted communities -- Forgotten impacts
Territorial visions -- The Munduruku opposition -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Refusing to celebrate victory -- The cancellation of the São Luiz do Tapajós project -- A 'good moment' -- Continued vigilance -- The presidency of Jair Bolsonaro -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Final remarks -- Postscript -- Note -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000220445
1000220443