The great convergence : environmental histories of BRICS /

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Meeting name:	Great Convergence: Environmental Histories of BRICS (Workshop) (2014 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Description:	xix, 442 pages : charts, maps ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Civil society -- BRIC countries -- Congresses. Environmental policy -- BRIC countries -- Congresses. Economic policy. Environmental policy. Ecology. Civil society. BRIC countries -- Environmental conditions -- Congresses. BRIC countries -- Environmental conditions -- Historiography -- Congresses. BRIC countries -- Economic policy -- Congresses. BRIC countries. Conference papers and proceedings. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12023626

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Other authors / contributors:	Rajan, S. Ravi, editor. Sedrez, Lise, editor. Ramesh, Jairam, writer of supplementary textual content. Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, host institution.
ISBN:	9780199479375 0199479372
Notes:	Papers presented at a workshop held at the Fundaô̇ Casa de Rui Barbosa in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2014. Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-426) and index.
Summary:	This book is the result of a collaborative effort in which environmental historians from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa came together to offer new perspectives on the new and somehow intriguing entity. These scholars forged a dialogue from their own historical traditions to find common threads and common challenges. The contributors focus on three basic themes that can serve as building blocks for future research: the state, the civil society, and the academia, that is, what has been written in each country on the relations between nature and society over time. The historical perspective is crucial for understanding the environmental and social challenges which might be faced by the BRICS nations in the years to come.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. The State
1. State and Environment in Brazil: In Defence of Society
2. Russia, State Power, and the Environment
3. The State of Environmental History in India
4. The Trajectory of Contemporary China State's Involvement in Environmental Issues
5. The State, Science, and Environmental Management in South Africa, c. 1870 to the Present
Part II. Civil Society
6. Civil Society and Environmentalism in Brazil: The Twentieth Century's Great Acceleration
7. Non-state Actors in Environmental History of Russia
8. The Environment and Civil Society in India
9. Understanding the Development of Civil Society and ENGOs in China since 1979
10. From Conservation to Environmental Justice: Trends in the Relationship between the State and Environmental Civil Society Organizations in South Africa
Part III. Historiography
11. What Do Brazilian Environmental Histotians Really Do? An Overview of Research and Main Themes of the Discipline
12. Russian Environmental History: A Historiographical Review
13. Indian Environmental History: An Overview
14. Making New Wine in Old Casks: Environmental History in China
15. South Africa's Environmental History: A Historiography
16. The Great Convergence and Historiography
Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Index

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