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Socioecological economics of water development in the Brazilian Amazon: Elements for a critical reflection

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•Amazon water development is an increasingly contested issue of global significance.•Recent engineering projects replicate the developmentalist rationality of the 1970s.•Cultural political economy is helpful to assess resource grabbing and injustices.•Sensibility to culture and society needs to be connected with cross-scale politics.

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  • Ioris, Antonio A.R., 2020. "Socioecological economics of water development in the Brazilian Amazon: Elements for a critical reflection," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolec:v:173:y:2020:i:c:s0921800919302265
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106654
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    1. Buchs, Arnaud & Calvo-Mendieta, Iratxe & Petit, Olivier & Roman, Philippe, 2021. "Challenging the ecological economics of water: Social and political perspectives," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 190(C).

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