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

Swift Hall
1025 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

University of Chicago
November 5-6, 2009

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Panel 1 — Models of Development: An Assessment of the Last 20 Years of Public Policy for the Amazon Region

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• Neocolonialism or development? The same dilemma, twenty years later.
  Roberto Smeraldi, Journalist, Director of Amigos da Terra – Amazônia Brasileira, São Paulo, SP.
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• Climate change in Amazonia and its implications for communities.
  Foster Brown, Pesquisador do Woods Hole Research Center e do Parque Zoobotânico, Universidade do Acre, Rio Branco, AC.
• Brazilian environmental policies for the Amazon:Lessons from the last 20 years.
  Phillip M. Fearnside, Ecólogo, Pesquisador do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM.
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• The Challenge of Sustainable Development in the Amazon with the Involvement of Local People.
  Jorge Viana. Engenheiro Florestal, ex Governador do Acre, Rio Branco, AC.
• Respondent: Mary Allegretti, Antropóloga, Consultora Independente, Curitiba, PR.

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Organized by the Center for Latin American Studies with the generous support of the Tinker Visiting Professor program, a US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant, and a grant from the Brazil Office of the Ford Foundation. Additional support is made possible by a grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation to the Program on the Global Environment, and from the Center for International Studies.