Flooded [electronic resource] : development, democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam / Peter Taylor Klein.
"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 also...
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Language: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2022]
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Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Dams and development
- Booms, busts, and collective mobilization along the Transamazon
- Democratic developmentalism
- The living process
- The fight for recognition
- The law, activism, and legitimacy.