Modernization and political actions in the Brazilian Amazon : the City of Barcarena, Pará

This book offers an analysis of the territory of Barcarena, in the Brazilian Amazon. The author studies the land use and the implemented modernization policies that made it one of the richest cities of the state. The political system uses this territory as a resource to provide for the needs of a sm...

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Main Author Nahum, João Santos (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
SeriesSpringerBriefs in Latin American studies.
Subjects
Barcarena (Brazil) > Politics and government.
Brazil > Barcarena.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Contents; 1 The Modern Territorial Reordering of Barcarena; Abstract; 1.1 The Modernization Through Albras/Alunorte; 1.2 Locations of Spontaneous Occupation; 1.3 A Fabulous Place Planned: The Village of Cabanos; References; 2 The Use of the Territory as a Resource by the Ruling Elite of Barcarena; Abstract; 2.1 The Conservative Actions System; 2.1.1 The Dispatches Policy; 2.1.2 The Political Coercion; 2.1.3 The Centralization and the Opacity; 2.1.4 The City's Policy in the Works; References.
  • 3 The Management of Laurival Magno Cunha and the Implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility LawAbstract; 3.1 The Fiscal Responsibility Law: A State's Instrument of Reform; 3.2 The Fiscal Responsibility Law in Barcarena: Modernization and Conservation; References; 4 Conclusion; Abstract; References; Annex-About the Sources of Verbal Information; Bibliography.

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