- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "Sweet Fuel: A Political and the Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol traces the ethanol industry from its inception under a state institution in 1933 through the height of government intervention under the national program during the dictatorship to its rebirth with the launch of the flexible fuel car in 2003. It argues that private businessmen, politicians, and rural workers leveraged nationalist interests in a domestic fuel option into one of the most advanced alternative energy initiatives in the world. The industry's connection to the popular ethanol-fueled car connected the sugar-ethanol sector to Brazilian development goals of the twentieth century, but producers and government officials ignored the disproportionate environmental and costs associated with ethanol's expansion. Focused on Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, the largest ethanol-producing region in the country, the book examines how producers' continued dumping of vinasse, a byproduct of ethanol distillation, in local waterways connected the industry to extensive water pollution while exploitative labor laws drove the program's rapid expansion over the course of the twentieth century. Rural communities' efforts to hold producers accountable for these costs contrasts with national and international praise for the industry's potential climate benefits. Sweet Fuel provides a full analysis of ethanol's long-term development to reveal the historical complexities of one of today's premiere "green energy" industries"--
- Uniform Title
- Sweet fuel (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Sweet fuel (Online)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Early sugar and ethanol policy, 1933-1959 -- Sugar, ethanol, and development, 1959-1975 -- Proálcool, 1975-1985 -- Lakes of sacrifice: ethanol and water pollution -- Proálcool, caneworkers, and the guariba strikes of 1984 -- Proálcool reimagined, 1985-2003.
- ISBN
- 9780197510704
- LCCN
- 2021060581
- OCLC
- ssj0002557894
- Author
Eaglin, Jennifer.
- Title
Sweet fuel [electronic resource] : a political and environmental history of Brazilian ethanol / Jennifer Eaglin.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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