Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil: An Environmental History of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s-1990s

Join us for a book talk with former Harvard Environmental Fellow Matthew P. Johnson and discussants Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico; Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences; and Dustin Tingley, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy. 

During the later twentieth century, Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship built a vast network of hydropower dams that became one of the world's biggest low-carbon electricity grids. Weighed against these carbon savings, what were the costs? 

Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil unpacks the social and environmental impacts and the implications for a just energy transition.

Lunch will be provided.

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