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  • 25 - Development Strategies and Environmental Inequalities in Brazil

  • from Part V - Social Justice
  • Edited by Katharine Legun, Julie C. Keller, University of Rhode Island, Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, Michael M. Bell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
    Published online:
    05 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 416-434

  • 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.