Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil

• Tác giả: Eve E Buckley
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1469634326
• Thông tin xuất bản: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (298 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 347961
• Chủ đề: 1. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Infrastructure; 2. SCIENCE--Environmental Science; 3. SOCIAL SCIENCE--General; 4. Sustainable development--Political aspects; 5. Sustainable development--Social aspects

Tóm tắt

This text examines Brazil's hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development.