Energy Policy in Latin America: Social and Environmental Dimensions of Hydropower in Amazonia (Avebury Series in Green Research) [Hardcover]

Maria Gracinda C. Teixeira (Author)

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Publication Date: August 1996 | ISBN-10: 1859723624 | ISBN-13: 978-1859723623 | Edition: First Edition

This text is a criticism of the policy of energy production in Brazilian Amazonia. It focuses on the dramatically accumulated social and environmental debt incurred by the way Amazonian rivers have been utilized to provide hydropower and to sustain an export-oriented industrial economy.

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Hardcover: 348 pages
Publisher: Avebury; First Edition edition (August 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1859723624
ISBN-13: 978-1859723623
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,433,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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