1st Edition
Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development
1. Introduction
2. Brazilian Developmentalism and Environmentalist Challenges
3. The Mahogany Moratorium
4. The Case of the Soy Moratorium
5. Boycotts of Illegally-produced Beef and Leather
6. The Case of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam
7. Conservative Reactions
8. Collaboration
9. Conclusions
Biography
Luiz Barbosa is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, San Francisco State University, USA.
"While the book will be of interest to anyone interested in understanding the history and con-text of the fight to preserve the Brazilian Amazon, it extends beyond the Amazon in the sense that it also provides a comprehensive explanation of the action-sphere of environmental NGO’s in the context of socioeconomic world-systems." – Natureza & Conservação, Ricardo A. Correia , Institute of Biological Sciences and Health, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
"I highly recommend Guardians to any reader interested in the political economy of the Amazon." - Janette Bulkan, University of British Columbia, Canada, in International Forestry Review (2016).
"I consider Barbosa’s book an excellent text to explore the main challenges that sustainable development and conservation currently face in the Brazilian Amazon, and how these challenges have formed - contemporarily and historically - from multifaceted national and global claims to the region" - Mario L. Cardozo, in "The AAG Review of Books".
