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.
Contents:
Foreword / by Jairam Ramesh -- Introduction / by S. Ravi Rajan -- State. State and environment in Brazil : in defence of society / Regina Horta Duarte -- Russia, state power, and the environment / Paul Josephson -- State of environmental history in India / S. Ravi Rajan -- Trajectory of contemporary China state's involvement in environmental issues / Xueqin Mei -- State, science, and environmental management in South Africa, c. 1870 to the present / William Beinart -- Civil society. Civil society and environmentalism in Brazil : the twentieth century's great acceleration / José Augusto Pádua -- Non-state actors in environmental history of Russia / Nicolai Dronin -- Environment and civil society in India / Radhika Krishnan -- Understanding the development of civil society and ENGOs in China since 1979 / Fei Sheng -- From conservation to environmental justice : trends in the relationship between the state and environmental civil society organizations in South Africa / Farieda Khan -- Historiography. What do Brazilian environmental historians really do? : an overview of research and main themes of the discipline / Lise Sedrez and Eunice Nodari -- Russian environmental history : a historiographical review / Julia Lajus -- Indian environmental history : an overview / S. Ravi Rajan and Rohan D'Souza -- Making new wine in old casks : environmental history in China / Shen Hou -- South Africa's environmental history : a historiography / Sandra Swart -- The great convergence and historiography / S. Ravi Rajan
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.
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