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Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society.

Publication: The Review of Policy Research
Publication Date: 01-MAY-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press. xxi + 283 pages. ISBN 9780822340485, $84.95 cloth. ISBN 9780822340317, $23.95 paper. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret Keck. 2007.

Two of the central questions in environmental politics and policy making are how to engage developing countries, like Brazil, in negotiations on global issues such as climate change and how to translate the idea Of sustainable development into specific policies and agreements. Helping poorer countries reduce the poverty that plagues so many of their citizens remains a pressing global moral obligation. These countries are also most at risk from climate change because they typically lack the resources to adapt to the host of climate consequences such as increased severity and frequency of storms and flooding in some areas, more...

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