Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes. Myth, Propaganda, Reality

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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