Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society - Rilegato

Hochstetler, Kathryn; Keck, Margaret E.

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ISBN 10: 0822340488 ISBN 13: 9780822340485

Casa editrice: Duke Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment, and the interplay of those efforts with transnational environmentalism. The authors trace Brazil’s complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive socio-environmentalism meant to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously. Hochstetler and Keck argue that explanations of Brazilian environmentalism—and environmentalism in the global South generally—must take into account the way that domestic political processes shape environmental reform efforts.

The authors present a multilevel analysis encompassing institutions and individuals within the government—at national, state, and local levels—as well as the activists, interest groups, and nongovernmental organizations that operate outside formal political channels. They emphasize the importance of networks linking committed actors in the government bureaucracy with activists in civil society. Portraying a gradual process marked by periods of rapid advance, Hochstetler and Keck show how political opportunities have arisen from major political transformations such as the transition to democracy and from critical events, including the well-publicized murders of environmental activists in 1988 and 2004. Rather than view foreign governments and organizations as the instigators of environmental policy change in Brazil, the authors point to their importance at key moments as sources of leverage and support.

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Recensione:

"Greening Brazil is an extremely interesting, insightful, and important book. It is important precisely because it fills a huge gap in outsiders' understanding of Brazil's internal politics on environmental issues, providing insights into an often misunderstood country whose environmental performance has truly global implications."--J. Timmons Roberts, coauthor of Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America "Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck have vast and complementary direct experiences with environmental reform in Brazil, and their long-term commitment to following these issues has clearly paid off in their analysis of the country's long, rich, and distinctive reform history." --Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz

Greening Brazil is an important contribution to Brazilian studies and Latin American environmental issues. The book showcases Hochstetler and Keck s hard-won empirical data...the writing is excellent, the story is compelling, and the argument is clear: that Brazilian environmental politics have deep domestic roots...As scholars study environmentalism in its numerous forms and sectors, they will find Greening Brazil to be an essential and lucid guide. --Christian Brannstrom in Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 2009

L'autore:

Kathryn Hochstetler is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She is a coauthor of Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences and a coeditor of Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics.

Margaret E. Keck is Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil and a coauthor of Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics.

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• Editore: Duke Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0822340488
• ISBN 13: 9780822340485
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 283