Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil by Matthew P. Johnson - 9781009428705

Cambridge University Press

Hydropower in Authoritarian BrazilAn Environmental History of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s90s\nAuthor(s): Matthew P. Johnson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009428705, 978-1009428705\nSynopsis\nDuring the later twentieth century, Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship built a vast network of hydropower dams that became one of the world's biggest low-carbon electricity grids. Weighed against these carbon savings, what were the costs? Johnson unpacks the social and environmental implications of this project, from the displacement of Indigenous and farming communities to the destruction of Amazonian biodiversity. Drawing on rich archival material from forty sites across Brazil, Paraguay, and the United States, including rarely accessed personal collections, Johnson explores the story of the military of?cers and engineers who created the dams and the protestors who fought them. Brazilian examples .