Damming the Amazon: Local movements and transnational struggles over water

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-48

  McCormick, Sabrina ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Conflict; Hydroelectric dam; Social movements; Water

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 78650049298     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920903278129     Document Type: Article

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