Environment and Development: Challenges, Policies and Practices

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 M滱cio 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.