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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State policies in Brazilian Amazonia - constraints, expansion and destruction
the Brazilian state and the political economy of hydroelectricity development in Amazonia
the nature of the Brazilian state in the production of energy - structure, articulations and intervention in Amazonia
The Tucurui Dam in context
the Cachoeira Porteira hydroelectric scheme in context