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

 



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 **May 12, 2025** 

 12:00PM - 01:15PM EDT 

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 **HUCE Seminar Room 440, MCZ 4th Floor 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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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