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"This book focuses on how local, national and international civil society groups opposed the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in the Brazilian Amazon. In doing so, it explores how contemporary opposition to hydropower projects demonstrate a form of 'contested sustainability' that highlights the need for sustainable development agendas to take more into account than merely greenhouse gas emissions. The assertion that society must look to successfully transition away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources often appears assured in contemporary environmental governance. However, what is less certain is who decides which forms of energy are deemed 'sustainable'. Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon explores one process in which the sustainability of a 'green' energy source is contested. It focuses on how civil society actors have both challenged and reconfigured dominant pro-dam assertions that present the hydropower schemes explored as renewable energy projects that contribute to sustainable development agendas. The volume also examines in detail how anti-dam actors act to render visible the political interests behind a project, whilst at the same time linking the resistance movement to wider questions of contemporary environmental politics. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice, Environmental Governance and Development Studies"--

Water resources development --- Water-power --- Sustainable development --- Environmental aspects --- Belo Monte (Power Plant) --- Social aspects.

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In this timely book, Ed Atkins asks: are we getting decarbonisation right? And how could it be made better for people and communities? In doing so, this book proposes a different type of energy transition. One that prioritises and takes opportunities to do better - to provide better jobs, community ownership and improve people's homes and lives.

Technology --- Sustainable development. --- Renewable energy sources --- Social aspects.

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À travers son travail, fait de vidéos, de textes et de dessins, Ed Atkins (né en 1982) explore la virtualité de notre univers visuel contemporain et ses effets profonds sur la réalité de nos vies. La haute définition de ses vidéos, réalisées dans des couleurs saturées, couplées à un son très puissant, interroge la perfection technique des images, leurs potentialités et les idéologies qu'elles peuvent véhiculer, démontrant la capacité paradoxale de ce médium à reproduire de façon réaliste notre monde matériel d'une manière totalement dématérialisée, tout en intensifiant la force des sujets traités par l'artiste : la dépression, la mort, la maladie. Ed Atkins a été nommé pour le Prix Jarman en 2011.

Atkins, Ed. --- Atkins, Everett Taylor,

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Art --- installations [visual works] --- sculpting --- Marten, Helen