Why not send your inquiry to the investigators, who are not on this list, and so will not see your comments here? I can say that some of the team members are personal friends of mine (they asked me to pass the announcement to this list). Those team members have worked in the Brazilian Amazon for decades, and are thus presumably aware of some of what you mention, and might have an intelligent answer to your questions. Forrest
Pardon my brevity and typos - Sent from my mobile phone. > On May 12, 2017, at 2:50 PM, Cristina Inoue <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Reed and all, > > Thank you! > > As a Brazilian and GEP scholar, I second your view and do hope the project is > open to this possibility. Things don't look good in Brazil/Amazon (and other > biomes). Violence and other kinds of Human Rights abuses are increasing. > "Ruralistas" in the Congress are trying to roll back legislation for > socio-environmental impact assessment, Indigenous Land and Protected Area > demarcation and so on, that would have huge socio-environmental impacts not > only for Brazil, but for the planet, considering the dimensions of the Amazon > forest/basin, as well as, the high socio-biodiversity in the Amazon, > Cerrado/savannah and Atlantic forest. > > Cristina > > > >> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Reed M. Kurtz <[email protected]> wrote: >> Certainly does at the least look like an interesting project. I would in >> particular be interested to know what kinds of relationships the researchers >> intend to develop or have developed with activists, organizations, and >> communities in Amazonia who are critical of or otherwise resist these >> hydropower projects? "developing new ways to reduce the >> social, economic and environmental costs of hydropower >> development." - Does that potentially include the possibility of abandoning >> (or resisting) existing or future developments for hydropower projects in >> Brazil? >> >> Let's be clear here - there are active and ongoing struggles over land use >> and property rights between the Brazilian state, capitalist >> agro-industrialists and developers, and indigenous communities and workers >> movements (such as the MST/Via Campesina) with frequently violent >> repercussions for movement workers and activists. And activists and >> observers have acknowledged that human rights violations have increased >> since the "legal coup" of current Brazilian government Michel Temer. (See >> http://globaljusticeecology.org/watch-aggression-against-social-movement-leaders-rampant-in-brazil/ >> for starters) >> >> Seems crucial for me that global environmental politics scholars would be >> wise to be critically aware and publicly self-reflexive about our relations >> to these sorts of things, much as our colleagues in cultural and political >> ecology and anthropology/geography have done (or at least tried to do). >> >> -Reed >> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Forrest Fleischman >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Looks like a neat opportunity (see attachment) >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "gep-ed" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "gep-ed" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Cristina Y. A. Inoue > Visiting Fellow - School of Global Environmental Sustainability > Colorado State University > > Professora-Associada > Instituto de Relações Internacionais > Universidade de Brasília > CV Lattes > http://lattes.cnpq.br/5557106844328206 > http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4791276Z4 > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > Faça consciente, faça diferente! > > Substitua o copo descartável por uma caneca durável :) > Apague as luzes ao sair > Feche as torneiras > Use os dois lados do papel > Dê carona...PEDALE! > http://tomeconsciencia-unb.blogspot.com/ > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > IREL-UNB > Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro - > Universidade de Brasilia - Asa Norte, > Caixa Postal 04306 - CEP 70919-970 - Brasilia, DF > Telefones > 55 61 3107 3644 > 55 61 3107 3637 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
