Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been practiced in Brazil since the 1970s and
became mandatory in 1981, after the enactment of the National Environment Policy Act, for …

Deforestation rates in the Amazon have markedly increased in the last few years, affecting
non-protected and protected areas (PAs). Brazil is a hotspot of Protected Area Downgrading …

Dam planning and construction is notoriously difficult. It is highly complex, involving a
multitude of social, environmental, economic and technological questions that often become …

Mega-dams have drastically altered the pulse of natural flooding in rivers of the Amazon,
negatively affecting the biodiversity of different forest ecosystems. This study aimed to …

Although hydropower companies and governments have promoted monetary-based Benefit-
Sharing Mechanisms alone as a vector of local development for flooded municipalities, it is …

In Brazil, electricity generation comes mainly from Hydroelectric Power Plants (HPP) that
accounts for 65% of the national production. The establishment of a given HPP promotes …

Este artigo apresenta uma revisão da bibliografia científica acerca da temática da vida no
pós-reassentamento. Seu objetivo principal é analisar como a literatura descreve o sentido …

This research aims to identify, through the Strategic Field of Action Theory, the rationalities
encompassed in the environmental assessment of the UHE Tijuco Alto Hydropower Plant …

Using document review, the chapter seeks to map and discuss the politics and technicalities
around damming as a mitigation measure for climate change and variability that have been …

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi identificar, por meio da Teoria dos Campos de Ação
Estratégica, as racionalidades abarcadas no licenciamento ambiental da hidrelétrica de …