Brazil in the Anthropocene

Anthropocene in Brazil: an inquiry into development obsession and policy limits PHILIPPE LÉNA AND LIZ-REJANE ISSBERNER PART I Development dynamics and social-environmental contradictions 1 Brazil in the history of the Anthropocene JOSÉ AUGUSTO PÁDUA 2 Population, development and environmental degradationin Brazil JOSÉ EUSTÁQUIO DINIZ ALVES AND GEORGE MARTINE 3 The Amazon before the Brazilian environmental issue VIOLETA REFSKALEVSKY LOUREIRO 4 Deregulation, relocation and environmental conflict –considerations on the control of social demands in contemporary Brazil HENRI ACSELRAD AND GUSTAVO NEVES BEZERRA 5 Markets or the Commons? The role of indigenous peoples, traditional communities and sectors of the peasantry in the environmental crisis JEAN-PIERRE LEROY PART II Controversy and disinformation 6 Planned disinformation: the example of the Belo Monte dam as a source of greenhouse gases PHILIP M. FEARNSIDE 7 Biosafety regulations and practices and consequences in Brazil: who wants to hide the problems? LEONARDO MELGAREJO 8 Tax incentive for pesticides: a debate on its(un)constitutionality from the environmental rule of law and the environmental public order JOÃO ALFREDO TELLES MELO AND GEOVANA DE OLIVEIRA PATRÍCIO MARQUES PART III Facing the consequences of climate change 9 From co-leader to loner: Brazilian wavering positions in climate change negotiations LARISSA BASSO AND EDUARDO VIOLA 10 From environmental information to precaution in the face of environmental risks: an analysis of Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change and rulings by higher courts CARLOS JOSÉ SALDANHA MACHADO AND RODRIGO MACHADO VILANI 11 Shaping up Brazil’s long-term development considering climate change impacts SÉRGIO MARGULIS AND NATALIE UNTERSTELL 12 Pathways to a low carbon economy in Brazil EMILIO LÈBRE LA ROVERE, CLAUDIO GESTEIRA, CAROLINA GROTERA AND WILLIAM WILLS 13 Financing sustainability: where has all the money gone? LADISLAU DOWBOR 14 Climate change and the integration of public policies MARCEL BURSZTYN AND MARIA AUGUSTA BURSZTYN 15 Environment policy and governance in Brazil: challenges and prospects ADRIANA MARIA MAGALHÃES DE MOURA 16 Collective forest reserves in agrarian reform settlements: measures to prevent a non-commons tragedy in the Brazilian Amazon PETER MAY, ROBERT DAVENPORT, PEDRO NOGUEIRA AND PAULO CÉSAR NUNES Are the multiple social-ecological initiatives the sign of apolitical and cultural shift? PHILIPPE LÉNA AND LIZ-REJANE ISSBERNER