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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil: An Environmental History of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s-1990s
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SUMMARY:Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil: An Environmental History of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s-1990s
DESCRIPTION:<p><span>Join us for a book talk with former Harvard Environmental Fellow</span> <span>Matthew</span> <span>P.</span> <span>Johnson</span> <span>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.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span>During the later twentieth century, Brazil's right-wing military dictatorship</span> <span>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?</span>&nbsp;</p><p><em><span>Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil</span></em> <span>unpacks the social and environmental impacts and the implications for a just energy transit</span>ion.</p><p><em>Lunch will be provided.</em></p><p><a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/24020f4d-e3e9-4ee8-8f49-6669d63a1bbe/regProcessStep1">To register, please see the original event posting.&nbsp;</a></p>
LOCATION:HUCE Seminar Room 440, MCZ 4th Floor 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138
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