| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.2

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. By Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xviii + 283 pp. Bibliography and index. Paper $23.95.

Kathryn Hochstetler (University of New Mexico) and Margaret E. Keck (Johns Hopkins), political scientists, successfully fused into this volume fifteen years of continuing research and scholarship about environmental awareness, activism, and policy in Brazil. They cover about forty years (roughly 1965 to 2005) of varied social and political developments in concise, well-written chapters filled with rich information and sharp analysis. Although not properly an environmental history production, by spanning four decades with a specific concern about the interplay between lasting patterns and emerging/disappearing ones, the text adds historical dimension to the examination of topics more akin to political science scholarship—such as political behavior, types of organizations, debates over laws and policies, transition from dictatorship to democracy, decentralization of environmental (and other) policies, activism strategies, interplay of national and international actors, complex alliances, and conflicts.

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