Environment and Development

Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris is Reader at Cardiff University, UK. Much of his current research is related to social and environmental justice, the multiple obstacles faced by marginalised groups and creative reactions at different geographical scales. The work is intended to have both academic and practical relevance and is focused on socionatural processes, on the political economy of development and environmental regulation, and on governance and politics

• Part I Introduction.- 1 Environmental Roots of Development Problems.- Part II Understanding the Environment and Development Nexus.- 2 Healthy Cities, Diseasogenic Cities and the Global South.- 3 Regenerating the Socio-Ecological Quality of Urban Streams: The Potential of a Social Learning Approach.- 4 A Systems Analysis Approach to Addressing Contemporary Water Challenges: Management Improvements in Brazil and Beyond.- 5 Doce River Large-Scale Environmental Catastrophe: Decision and Policy-Making Outcomes.- 6 What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up? The Political Dimensions of Climate Change in Brazil, China and Mozambique.- 7 Colombia’s Developmental and Socioecological Trajectory and the Mounting Risks Associated with the 2016 Havana Accord.- 8 Cerca del Rio y Lejos del Agua: Water, Autonomy, and Hope in the Ecuadorian Andes.- 9 ‘The Best-Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men’: Transformative Agency Towards Ecosocialism.- Part III The Lived Environment and Development of the Amazon Region.- 10 The Indigenous Politics of Belonging: Opposing Neoliberal Extractivism with Ethical Cosmologies.- 11 Voiceless Development, Toxic Injustice, Criminal Resistance: A Study of Peruvian Natural Resource Extraction Through the Political Ecology of Voice.- 12 Ethnogenesis and Environmentalism in Contemporary Brazilian Amazonia: A Study in Comparative Frontier History.- 13 Brazilian National Integration Policies and the Amazon: Discourses of Modernisation Between the Past and the Present.- 14 Unintended Consequences of ‘Development’ in the Amazon: Commercial Aquaculture and Malaria in Mâncio Lima, Brazil.- 15 Political Economy of Amazon Development and Hydropower Construction.- 16 Water Governance and the Hydrosocial Territory of the Teles Pires River Basin in the Brazilian Amazon.- 17 La Via Campesina’s Agroecological Militancy at a Crossroads: New Research Avenues for Amazonian Studies.- 18 Oxford Letter for the Amazon.