Global Environmentalism and Local Politics

Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross.

• Abbreviations and Acronyms Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Transnational Advocacy Networks, Civil Society, and the Environment: Defining ConceptsKey QuestionsResearch Method and Organization of the Book 2. The Dilemma of Amazonian Development and Its Impact on Rondonia Amazonian Development and Military Rule (1964–1984)Environmental and Development Policies for Amazonia in Democratic Brazil 3. Urgent Action! Transnational Mobilization against Disaster in Rondonia The BeginningThe Rondonia Network Gains MomentumTransnational Activism and Domestic Constraints—The Rondônia Network within BrazilTaking Stock of the Rondônia Network in the 1980s 4. "Localizing" Transnational Activism—Success and Failure The Issue of Transparency: Environmentally Sustainable Development to Whom? By Whom?Building Capacity for Participation: Searching for the Right Recipe in RondoniaThe Rondonia Network’s Legitimacy Crisis of 1994Taking Stock of the Rondônia Network in the Early 1990s 5. Listening to The Grassroots—The Rondônia Network and Local Politics The Rondonia Network Takes Planafloro to the Inspection PanelEvaluating and Restructuring Planafloro: A New Meaning for Environmentally Sustainable Development?Taking Stock of the Rondônia Network at the Turn of the Millennium 6. Environmental Activism beyond Brazil I—The Struggle against Oil Exploitation in Ecuador Fighting Oil Exploitation in Ecuador’s Oriente: Background and Network OriginsThe Anti-Oil Network and the Campaigns against Texaco and ARCOTaking Stock of Ecuador’s Anti-Oil Network 7. Environmental Activism beyond Brazil II—The Struggle against Large Dams in India The Struggle against the Sardar Sarovar Dam—Background and Network OriginsThe Narmada Network Strategies and Their Local ImpactsTaking Stock of the Narmada Network 8. Conclusions Local Empowerment and Local ResultsLessons and RecommendationsFinal Thoughts Notes References Index