Droughts, Morality, State Politics and the Brazilian Semiarid Landscape: A Study of the São Francisco River Integration Project
The poorest region of Brazil, the Northeast is prone to devastating multi-annual droughts, an inherent part of its geography. The Brazilian state attributes the poverty of the Northeast to the semiarid landscape and a supposed water deficit. The state defends a water diversion project on the biggest...
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Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Geografisk institutt
2008
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-2271 |