Hochstetler / Keck Greening Brazil

Environmental Activism in State and Society
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9059-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Authoritative work on the complex history of modern Brazilian environmental policy and its relation to both transnational politics and domestic democratization processes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hochstetler, Kathryn

Keck, Margaret E.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables viii

Preface ix

List of Acronyms and Organizations xv

Introduction 1

1. Building Environmental Institutions: National Environmental Politics and Policy 23

2. National Environmental Activism: The Changing Terms of Engagement 63

3. From Protest to Project: The Third Wave of Environmental Activism 97

4. Amazonia 140

5. From Pollution Control to Sustainable Cities 186

Conclusion 223

Appendix: List of Interviews 231

Notes 239

Bibliography 249

Index 273

Über Autor(innen)

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.