Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology Volume 1
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Theory in Environmental Sociology
- Part II The Economy and Environmental Sociology
- Part III Culture and Environmental Sociology
- Part IV Politics, Power, State
- Part V Social Justice
- 24 Expanding Critical and Radical Approaches to Environmental Justice
- 25 Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil
- 26 Rural Estrangement: Roadblocks and Roundabouts to Justice
- 27 Environmental Justice and Capitalism
- 28 Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology: A Social Power Structures Approach to Environmental Justice in Economic Systems
- Index
- References
25 - Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil
from Part V - Social Justice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology Volume 1
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Theory in Environmental Sociology
- Part II The Economy and Environmental Sociology
- Part III Culture and Environmental Sociology
- Part IV Politics, Power, State
- Part V Social Justice
- 24 Expanding Critical and Radical Approaches to Environmental Justice
- 25 Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil
- 26 Rural Estrangement: Roadblocks and Roundabouts to Justice
- 27 Environmental Justice and Capitalism
- 28 Ecological Economics and Environmental Sociology: A Social Power Structures Approach to Environmental Justice in Economic Systems
- Index
- References
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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- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology , pp. 416 - 434Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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