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25 - Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil

from Part V - Social Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2020

By
Henri Acselrad
Edited by
Katharine Legun ,
Julie C. Keller ,
Michael Carolan  and
Michael M. Bell
Katharine Legun
Affiliation:
Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
Julie C. Keller
Affiliation:
University of Rhode Island
Michael Carolan
Affiliation:
Colorado State University
Michael M. Bell
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Summary

The chapter focuses on the links between Brazil’s capitalist development model and the structural origins of the country´s environmental inequalities. It addresses the history of capitalism’s territoriality and the contradictory process of environmentalization of the Brazilian state. The author offers a framework for understanding the ways by which the environment became a materially and symbolically disputed terrain and identifies the particular challenges faced by activists fighting for environmental justice. Theoretical material is presented to interpret historical and current development strategies with their different kinds of environmental conflicts, some engendered under authoritarian developmentalism and others stemming from neoliberal environmental deregulation and flexibilization of environmental standards. Finally, the author discusses the democratic system’s crisis and its implications for research and the struggle against environmental inequalities in Brazil.

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environmental inequalitiesdevelopment modelenvironmental justiceenvironmental conflictssocial movementstraditional peoples
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The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology , pp. 416 - 434
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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