Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes. Myth, Propaganda, Reality

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1:
Introduction
	Notes
Part I:
On the right
	Chapter 2: Reforestation of wastelands and “environmental statehood” in nineteenth-century Prussia
		Introduction
		The reforestation as a private affair
		A partial return to state supervision of private forests
		State support to private reforestation efforts
		The purchase of private land for state-led reforestation
		Reforestation and the authoritarian practices of the Prussian administration
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 3: Red and green all over: Counterinsurgency and conservation in the jungles of Cold War Guatemala
		Introduction
		The Petén, a “quintessential frontier”
		An emporium of resources: developmentalist counterinsurgency in the 1960s
		Scorched earth and fortress conservation in the 1980s
		Shrouded legacies
		Notes
	Chapter: 4 Hydroelectric dams and the rise of environmentalism  under dictatorship in Brazil and Paraguay (1950–1990): The case of Itaipu
		Military regimes in Brazil and Paraguay: development plans and hydroelectricity expansion
		Dreams of development and hydroelectric power in Brazil and Paraguay
		Negotiating a project
		The legacy of Stockholm
		The environmental politics of dam building in Brazil
		Itaipu dam and environment
		The legacy of Itaipu: the impact of the dam on environmental regulation across the borders
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 5: Crafting authoritarian atmospheres under Pinochet’s dictatorship
		Introduction
		Approaches to studying dictatorships and the environment
		The coppering of Quintero Bay before the coup
		Isolation and dependency
		Ideological intransigence
		Constitutionalization of the environment
		Conclusions
		Notes
	Chapter 6: Bark beetles and ultra-right nationalist outbreaks:
Białowieża, Poland
		Reversing orders: forest conflict
		Ethnic history of the forest
		Post-socialistanti-authoritarianforest politics
		Targets of the ultra-right
		Ongoing processes
		Notes
		References
			Video sources
Part II:
On the left
	Chapter 7: Planned environment in a socialist dictatorship: Complex water management and soil improvement in Moravia
		Act I: seeing like the state
		Act II: on the nature of the project of socialist modernity
		Act III: seeing like the world? The arrival of landscape engineering
		Act IV: ecocide
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 8: Slovakia’s economic and political development in the communist regime of post-1948 Czechoslovakia and it senvironmental context
		Introduction
		Epilogue
		Notes
	Chapter 9: Retention of sulfur dioxide emission in the GDR: Between technology, economics, diplomacy, and public opinion
		Accepting pollution: 1949–1972
			Awareness and acceptance of pollution
			Between conscience and inefficiency
		new political and diplomatic dimension: 1972–1989
			Energy policy reviewed
			The limestone additive process: a limited process
			An international affair
			The implementation of a program: a limited hope
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 10: Sino-silviculture: State-sponsored green forestry initiatives in Mao’s China
		The current historiographical paradigm
		Evaluating the paradigm
		Challenging the paradigm
		The paradigm in context
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 11: Zimbabwe’s drift toward authoritarianism and its environmental consequences, 2000–2017
		Introduction
		A new beginning: redressing socioeconomic and environmental inequities among the poor, 1980–1999
		Political and economic decline and its environmental impact, 2000–2017
		State authoritarianism, diamond mining, pollution, and environmental degradation in Chiadzwa, Marange in Manicaland Province, 2006–2016
		Infrastructure development on urban wetlands at the expense of the environment
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Conclusions and perspectives
		Eastern Europe under the Soviet system
		Tentative openings, 1972–1989
		Latin American dictatorships during the Cold War
		Post-Cold War changes
		Colonial legacies: a note on Africa and South and Southeast Asia
		The bottom line
		Notes
Index