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Book Synopsis Northeast Brazilian Environmental Refugees by : Thomas Griffin Sanders
Download or read book Northeast Brazilian Environmental Refugees written by Thomas Griffin Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Part I of this article the author addresses what developments might have caused such important demographic changes in the northeastern states of Brazil. In Part II, he offers an elegant and intricate analysis of migratory patterns examining rural-to-rural trends. Poor weather conditions, relative drought (i.e. irregular rainfall), environmental deterioration, fragile water sources, high fertility rates (although decreasing steadily over the past 20 years), poverty, as well as poorly conceived and implemented government programmes are shown to play a role in a complex and comprehensive survey. Both articles offer historical perspectives of migratory trends from the northeast. Finally the author suggests that in light of Brazil's very difficult situation and in order to stem the flow of northeastern out-migration, appropriate allocation of resources, improved opportunities and living standards, land reforms, credit to small farmers and the development of small local industries and artisanry are essential elements which must be given serious consideration in further development planning if current trends are to be checked. Although the author concludes that migrants from the interior in Brazil have largely made their own way in the Brazilian world and will continue to do so, he concedes that their story is a mixture of success and satisfaction, alongside poverty and personal tragedy.
Book Synopsis Northeast Brazilian Environmental Refugees by : T. G. Sanders
Download or read book Northeast Brazilian Environmental Refugees written by T. G. Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Part I of this article the author addresses what developments might have caused such important demographic changes in the northeastern states of Brazil. In Part II, he offers an elegant and intricate analysis of migratory patterns examining rural-to-rural trends. Poor weather conditions, relative drought (i.e. irregular rainfall), environmental deterioration, fragile water sources, high fertility rates (although decreasing steadily over the past 20 years), poverty, as well as poorly conceived and implemented government programmes are shown to play a role in a complex and comprehensive survey. Both articles offer historical perspectives of migratory trends from the northeast. Finally the author suggests that in light of Brazil's very difficult situation and in order to stem the flow of northeastern out-migration, appropriate allocation of resources, improved opportunities and living standards, land reforms, credit to small farmers and the development of small local industries and artisanry are essential elements which must be given serious consideration in further development planning if current trends are to be checked. Although the author concludes that migrants from the interior in Brazil have largely made their own way in the Brazilian world and will continue to do so, he concedes that their story is a mixture of success and satisfaction, alongside poverty and personal tragedy.
Book Synopsis Environmentally Internally Displaced Persons in the Northeastern Backlands of Brazil by : Andrea Maria Calazans Pacheco Pacífico
Download or read book Environmentally Internally Displaced Persons in the Northeastern Backlands of Brazil written by Andrea Maria Calazans Pacheco Pacífico and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the relationship between internally displaced persons (IDPs) by natural disasters, for instance drought, and the environment, particularly in the Backlands of Brazil's Northeast, in order to search for legal and policy responses not yet applied in the region. Its focus is categorising those environmentally displaced persons as IDPs, so that they receive international legal protection, even in the absence of binding norms and institutions to protect them. This book makes some suggestions to categorise and protect such people from disasters, including, for instance, a network society communicative model based on collaboration among local people, the government, international organisations, and NGOs.
Book Synopsis Mortgaging the Earth by : Bruce Rich
Download or read book Mortgaging the Earth written by Bruce Rich and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank is the single biggest source of finance for international development, and its policies have a critical impact on the future of more than 110 borrowing countries. In this dramatic and lively new critique, Bruce Rich, internationally known expert on the environment and the World Bank, analyzes how the Bank has become a seemingly unstoppable and often destructive environmental and political force. The author chronicles the life-and-death impact of Bank-funded projects around the world: huge dams that have forced the resettlement of millions of the poorest people on earth, road building and jungle colonization schemes in Brazil, Indonesia, and Africa that have left vast deforestation and social conflict in their wake, and much more. Rich also recounts the bold grassroots campaigns of nongovernmental groups seeking alternatives to Bank-style development. Confidential internal Bank documents expose chronic misrepresentations by Bank management to its donor nations and to the public. Rich reveals how senior officials continue to push money into projects with disastrous ecological and human rights consequences, despite early and persistent protests of Bank staff. He shows how repeatedly and without political accountability the Bank has increased its support for regimes that torture and murder their subjects, from Ceaucescu's Romania to Suharto's Indonesia. Mortgaging the Earth explains the so-called pressure to lend that emerges as a leitmotif in the Bank's fifty-year history and shows how this institutional dynamic has taken on a damaging life of its own. Rich traces the history of the Bank, from its inception at Bretton Woods, where it was conceived as a way to funnelreconstruction loans for war-torn Europe, through the surreally top-down tenure of Robert McNamara to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. At Rio, governments poured billions of dollars more into the Bank to save our global environment - while the Bank financed new ecological disasters. The World Bank, Rich demonstrates in a provocative history of development from Descartes to Max Weber to Chico Mendes, is a crucible of the goals of the modern age, goals that in the very moment of their worldwide triumph have become problematic. He shows how the Bank's dilemmas mirror our global civilization's crisis of values and gives expert prescription for reform. Mortgaging the Earth makes disturbingly clear why every American should be concerned about the World Bank, as a critical arena where the global politics of technology, development, and the environment are played out on a small planet, one where the stakes are increasingly for keeps.
Book Synopsis Waiting for Rain by : Nicholas Gabriel Arons
Download or read book Waiting for Rain written by Nicholas Gabriel Arons and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on interviews with artists and poets and on his own experiences in the Brazilian Northeast, Arons has written an account of how drought has impacted the region's culture. He intertwines ecological, social, and political issues with the words of some of Brazil's most prominent authors and folk poets to show how themes surrounding drought - hunger, migration, endurance, nostalgia for the land - have become deeply embedded in Nordeste identity. Through this tapestry of sources, Arons shows that what is often thought of as a natural phenomenon is actually the result of centuries of social inequality, political corruption, and unsustainable land use."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Refugee and Humanitarian Admissions by : U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform
Download or read book Refugee and Humanitarian Admissions written by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Environmentally Internally Displaced Persons in the Northeastern Backlands of Brazil by : Andrea Pacheco Pacifico
Download or read book Environmentally Internally Displaced Persons in the Northeastern Backlands of Brazil written by Andrea Pacheco Pacifico and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the relationship between internally displaced persons (IDPs) by natural disasters, for instance drought, and the environment, particularly in the Backlands of Brazil's Northeast, in order to search for legal and policy responses not yet applied in the region. Its focus is categorising those environmentally displaced persons as IDPs, so that they receive international legal protection, even in the absence of binding norms and institutions to protect them. This book makes some suggestions to categorise and protect such people from disasters, including, for instance, a network.
Book Synopsis Environmental refugees by : Günther Bächler
Download or read book Environmental refugees written by Günther Bächler and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Displacement Beyond Conflict by : Christopher McDowell
Download or read book Displacement Beyond Conflict written by Christopher McDowell and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing political concern about the increasing numbers of people displaced both within the borders of their countries and internationally. This volume explores the interrelated drivers of contemporary global displacement with a particular focus on low-level conflict, climatic and environmental change and infrastructure development. The authors examine the governance of global displacement assessing the protection needs and responses of national governments and the international community. It further considers options for improving the humanitarian and political management of this growing problem.
Book Synopsis Refugees, Environment and Development by : Richard Black
Download or read book Refugees, Environment and Development written by Richard Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugees, Environment and Development is concerned with the complex interrelationships between forced migration, natural resource management and 'sustainable development'. The book challenges the growing rhetoric that refugees 'cause' environmental degradation, and that environmental decline is promoting a new wave of 'environmental refugees'. Drawing on examples from Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as detailed case studies of the Rwandan emergency of 1994-96, and lesser known refugee movements to Guinea and Senegal in West Africa, the book argues against a neo-Malthusian view of the relationship between population, environment and migration. The author explores alternative approaches to the dynamic processes of social and environmental change in refugee situations. This is an ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate students concerned with environment, development and migration studies, as well as policy-makers and practitioners in the field.
Book Synopsis The Developing World and the Environment by : Rajendra Ramlogan
Download or read book The Developing World and the Environment written by Rajendra Ramlogan and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seeds of the demise of many early civilizations (Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, and Mayan) found fertile ground in environmental conflicts. The roots of environmental crises are also embedded in the industrial revolution, the advent of the age of science and technology, urbanization, changes in agriculture, the population explosion, and the rise in consumerism. It is no surprise that even today, the global village is highly concerned with the issue of environmentalism. In this study, author Rajendra Ramlogan calls for a re-examination of the legal and institutional framework for protection of the global environment within the context of the special needs of the developing world. This unique third-world perspective on international environmental law is suitable for college-level courses.
Author :Gerald Michael Greenfield Publisher :American Philosophical Society ISBN 13 :9780871699114 Total Pages :184 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (991 download)
Book Synopsis The Realities of Images by : Gerald Michael Greenfield
Download or read book The Realities of Images written by Gerald Michael Greenfield and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Feb. 1877, a letter from the county council of Telha, a town of 600 people located in the Serra da Mattos in Brazil reported that people were dying from starvation. The previous year's rainy season had been sparse, and the harvest, poor. Now, this season's rains still had not appeared. This was the Great Drought -- three years of failed rains enshrined in Brazilian memory as the worst drought ever to hit Brazil's northeast. Drought had visited the region throughout its history, with the earliest recorded occurrences dating back to the 16th century. The failure of rains in 1877 was devastating, for it caught the provinces of the north totally unprepared. The specter of periodic droughts producing dislocation and death continues to haunt the region.
Book Synopsis Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking by : Sheldon Kamieniecki
Download or read book Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking written by Sheldon Kamieniecki and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a contribution to public policy and to help educate students about natural resource issues, this book identifies the likely "hot spots" of environmental policy and presents alternative and often opposing points of view on the major controversies that are likely to be with us well into the next century. Among the topics covered are comparative risk assessment; market incentives in environmental regulation; environmental justice; public versus private management of public lands; international trade and sustainable development; and the relationship between national security and environmental protection.
Book Synopsis Governing Global Desertification by : Pierre Marc Johnson
Download or read book Governing Global Desertification written by Pierre Marc Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desertification affects 70 per cent of the world's arable lands in more than 100 countries. Inextricably linked to poverty, it is estimated that the livelihood of 250 million people are directly affected while another billion living in rural drylands are threatened by this phenomenon. This volume examines the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signed in 1994. It studies the links between land degradation and poverty, the role of civil society and good governance in implementing the UNCCD and the various approaches to fighting desertification. Furthermore, it assesses the National Action Programmes, development planning and new avenues for strengthening implementation. Synthesizing the main strengths and weaknesses of the UNCCD as a tool for environmental and developmental governance, this informative volume highlights the main challenges facing the UNCCD in the future.
Book Synopsis Defying Displacement by : Anthony Oliver-Smith
Download or read book Defying Displacement written by Anthony Oliver-Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uprooting and displacement of people has long been among the hardships associated with development and modernity. Indeed, the circulation of commodities, currency, and labor in modern society necessitates both social and spatial mobility. However, the displacement and resettlement of millions of people each year by large-scale infrastructural projects raises serious questions about the democratic character of the development process. Although designed to spur economic growth, many of these projects leave local people struggling against serious impoverishment and gross violations of human rights. Working from a political-ecological perspective, Anthony Oliver-Smith offers the first book to document the fight against involuntary displacement and resettlement being waged by people and communities around the world. Increasingly over the last twenty-five years, the voices of people at the grass roots are being heard. People from many societies and cultures are taking action against development-forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) and articulating alternatives. Taking the promise of democracy seriously, they are fighting not only for their place in the world, but also for their place at the negotiating table, where decisions affecting their well-being are made.
Download or read book Migration and the Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Voices of Drought by : Michael B. Silvers
Download or read book Voices of Drought written by Michael B. Silvers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Voices of Drought, Michael B. Silvers proposes a scholarship focused on environmental justice to understand key questions in the study of music and the environment. His ecomusicological perspective offers a fascinating approach to events in Ceará, a northeastern Brazilian state affected by devastating droughts. These crises have a profound impact on social difference and stratification, and thus on forró music in the sertão (backlands) of the region. At the same time, the complex interactions of popular music and social conditions also help create the environment. Silvers offers case studies focused on the sertão that range from the Brazilian wax harvested in Ceará for use in early wax cylinder sound recordings to the drought- and austerity-related cancellation of Carnival celebrations in 2014-16. Unearthing links between music and the environmental and social costs of drought, his daring synthesis explores ecological exile, poverty, and unequal access to water resources alongside issues like corruption, prejudice, unbridled capitalism, and expanding neoliberalism.
