Brazil as an Economic Superpower?
Brazil as an Economic Superpower?

Author: Lael Brainard

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0815703651

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In Brazil, the confluence of strong global demand for the country's major products, global successes for its major corporations, and steady results from its economic policies is building confidence and even reviving dreams of grandeza—the greatness that has proven elusive in the past. Even as the current economic crisis tempers expectations of the future, the trends identified in this book suggest that Brazil will continue its path toward becoming a leading economic power in the future. Once seen as an economic backwater, Brazil now occupies key niches in energy, agriculture, service industries, and even high technology. Yet Latin America's largest nation still struggles with endemic inequality issues and deep-seated ambivalence toward global economic integration. Scholars and policy practitioners from Brazil, the United States, and Europe recently gathered to investigate the present state and likely future of the Brazilian economy. This important volume is the timely result. In Brazil as an Economic Superpower? international authorities focus on five key topics: agribusiness, energy, trade, social investment, and multinational corporations. Their analyses and expertise provide not only a unique and authoritative picture of the Brazilian economy but also a useful lens through which to view the changing global economy as a whole.

Europe's Green Ring
Europe's Green Ring

Author: Leo Granberg

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1351938185

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Around the fringe of Europe lies a green ring of countries which have followed different pathways into modernity from the industrial core of the continent and have, until recently, been characterized by a strong agrarian presence in their politics, economy and culture. This book brings together case studies from both the post-socialist countries and EU member states which make up the green ring to compare experiences of rural and agricultural groups. It provides a fascinating opportunity to identify similarities and contrasts in the ways in which these countries have managed their rural areas when faced with the challenges set by industrialization, political integration and globalization. The book focuses on agrarian transformation as de- (and sometimes re- ) peasantization - referring to the changing economic, social, cultural and political positions of farmers and food production workers. It also problematizes the standard rural models and opens up discussion of the problems these models pose for the farmers of the green ring countries.

Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America
Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America

Author: Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1351583743

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Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key nexus in food–feed–fuel production that underpins the agribusiness–conservationist discourse of "land sparing" through intensification. Yet soy production is implicated in multiple problems beyond deforestation, ranging from pesticide drift and contamination to social exclusion and conflicts in frontier zones, to concentration of wealth and income among the largest landowners and corporations. This book explores in depth the complex dynamics of soy production from its diverse social settings to its transnational connections, examining the politics of commodity and knowledge production, the role of the state, and the reach of corporate power in everyday life across soy landscapes in South America. Ultimately, the collection encourages us to search and struggle for agroecological alternatives through which we may overcome the pitfalls of this massive transnational capitalist agro-industry. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Agricultura, meio ambiente e sustentabilidade do cerrado brasileiro
Agricultura, meio ambiente e sustentabilidade do cerrado brasileiro

Author: S. Shiki

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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Economia e ecologia; Environmental Competition: a global perspective; A questao economica da questao ambiental; Desenvolvimento rural nos paises desenvolvidos e no Brasil; Las politicas de desrrollo rural; Agricultura e capitalismo na Europa do sul; O novo rural brasileiro; Perpectivas nacionais do desenvolvimento rural; Questoes de sustentabilidade nos grandes ecossistemas brasileiros; O desenvolvimento sustentavel da Amazonia; Sistema agroalimentar no cerrado brasileiro: caminhando para o caos?; Pantanal: notas sobre o desenvolvimento economico e ambiental; Sistema agroalimentar nos cerrados; Agroindustria e sustentabilidade; Agricultura familiar nos cerrados da regiao de Monte Carmelo e a questao da sustentabilidade; Contribuicao metodologica para estudos ambientais integrados nos cerrados; Os indicadores geomorfologicos e o desenvolvimento sustentavel nas area de cerrado; O papel dos recursos hidricos na sustentabilidade do sistema agroalimentar no dominio dos cerrados do Brasil central; Estudo de caso: a Bacia do medio/baixo Paranaiba no Estado de Minas Gerais; Meio ambiente e representacao de interesses; Actores sociales y politica agroambiental en la union europea;Meio ambiente e representacao de interesses na agricultura do cerrado mineiro; A questao da sustentabilidade da agricultura nos cerrados.

Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America
Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

Author: Edgardo Latrubesse

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 0080932185

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The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a response to recent climatic trends and sea-level scenarios are discussed. The approach is broad in analyzing causes and consequences and includes social and economic costs, discussing environmental and planning problems, but always describing the geomorphologic/geologic involved processes with a good scientific substantiation. This is important to differentiate the book from others of a more 'social' impact that discuss risks and disasters with emphases mainly on economy and simple impacts. - Actual theme, interesting for a variety of professionals - Fills in the scarcity of specialized literature in geosciences from South America - The first book in the market exclusively devoted to geomorphology of disasters in South America