Environmental Policy, Social Movements, and Science for the Brazilian Amazon

• Conference Description
• An Annotated Bibliography of Recommended Background Reading
• Photo Gallery

Conference Program with Reports & Video

• Opening Remarks
• Panel 1 — Models of Development: An Assessment of the Last 20 Years of Public Policy for the Amazon Region
• Panel 2 — Social Movements and Chico Mendes' Legacy for the Sustainable Development of the Amazon
• Panel 3 — Science and Technology as a Basis for a New Development Model for the Amazon
• Special Address — Perspectives from an Amazonian Social Movement

Conference attendees on November 5, 2009. The conference was being translated from a booth in the back of the room. (Photo by Jason Smith)

The conference was held in Swift Hall. (Photo by Jason Smith)

Mary Allegretti speaks at the "Social Movements and Chico Mendes Legacy for the Sustainable Development of the Amazon" panel. Photo by Jason Smith)

Mary Allegretti talks with Dain Borges (right) of the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American Studies. (Photo by Jason Smith)

Manuela da Cunha served as respondent for the panel on "Science and Technology as a Basis for a New Development Model for the Amazon." (Photo by Jason Smith)