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Authoritative work on the complex history of modern Brazilian environmental policy.

Table of Contents

List of Tables viii
Preface ix
List of Acronyms and Organizations xv
Introduction 1
1. Building Environmental Institutions: National Environmental Politics and Policy 23
2. National Environmental Activism: The Changing Terms of Engagement 63
3. From Protest to Project: The Third Wave of Environmental Activism 97
4. Amazonia 140
5. From Pollution Control to Sustainable Cities 186
Conclusion 223
Appendix: List of Interviews 231
Notes 239
Bibliography 249
Index 273

About the Author

Kathryn Hochstetler is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She is a coauthor of Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences and a coeditor of Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics.

Margaret E. Keck is Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil and a coauthor of Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics.

Reviews

"Greening Brazil is an extremely interesting, insightful, and important book. It is important precisely because it fills a huge gap in outsiders' understanding of Brazil's internal politics on environmental issues, providing insights into an often misunderstood country whose environmental performance has truly global implications."--J. Timmons Roberts, coauthor of Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America "Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck have vast and complementary direct experiences with environmental reform in Brazil, and their long-term commitment to following these issues has clearly paid off in their analysis of the country's long, rich, and distinctive reform history."--Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz "Greening Brazil is an important contribution to Brazilian studies and Latin American environmental issues. The book showcases Hochstetler and Keck's hard-won empirical data...the writing is excellent, the story is compelling, and the argument is clear: that Brazilian environmental politics have deep domestic roots...As scholars study environmentalism in its numerous forms and sectors, they will find Greening Brazil to be an essential and lucid guide."- Christian Brannstrom in Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 2009