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Kathryn Hochstetler is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She is a coauthor of Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences and a coeditor of Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics.
Authoritative work on the complex history of modern Brazilian environmental policy and its relation to both transnational politics and domestic democratization processes.
List of Tables viiiPreface ixList of Acronyms and Organizations xvIntroduction 11. Building Environmental Institutions: National Environmental Politics and Policy 232. National Environmental Activism: The Changing Terms of Engagement 633. From Protest to Project: The Third Wave of Environmental Activism 974. Amazonia 1405. From Pollution Control to Sustainable Cities 186Conclusion 223Appendix: List of Interviews 231Notes 239Bibliography 249Index 273