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Flooded: development, democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam / Peter Taylor Klein.

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"Contemporary dam construction is markedly different from what it was in the middle of the twentieth century, when governments ignored the negative impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued to use dams to promote growth, but have...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Klein, Peter Taylor (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Series:Nature, society, and culture.
Subjects:
Belo Monte (Power plant) > Social aspects.
Belo Monte (Power plant)
Dams > Social aspects > Brazil > Pará (State)
Hydroelectric power plants > Social aspects > Brazil > Pará (State)
Sustainable development > Brazil > Pará (State)
Xingu River (Brazil) > Environmental conditions.
Pará (Brazil : State) > Social conditions.
Environmental policy > Brazil.
Dams > Social aspects
Ecology
Environmental policy
Hydroelectric power plants > Social aspects
Social aspects
Social conditions
Sustainable development
Brazil
Brazil > Pará (State)
Brazil > Xingu River
Table of Contents:
  • Part I
  • Hydropower, Resistance, and the State
  • Dams and Development
  • Booms, Busts, and Collective Mobilization along the Transamazon
  • Democratic Developmentalism
  • Part II
  • An Ethnography of Dam Building
  • The Living Process
  • The Fight for Recognition
  • The Law, Activism, and Legitimacy

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