Marcelo Firpo de Souza Porto

TL;DR: In their own battles and strategy meetings since the early 1980s, environmental justice organizations and their networks have introduced several concepts to political ecology that have also been taken up by academics and policy makers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make use of an empirical exercise to illustrate estimation of the social cost associated with acute poisoning by pesticide using the PREVS/IBGE data (Harvest Forecast Research) in the state of Parana, Brazil.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a study on the lives, work, and health conditions of garbage pickers in the largest metropolitan landfill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a general assessment of the relationship between the Brazilian agrarian model and the impacts of pesticide use on health and environment, and propose a research agenda that integrates the different sectors engaged in protecting health, environment and also food safety and sovereignty.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the ever-increasing risk of similar accidents becoming a frequent ocurrence in the so-called industrializing countries and argued that only the transformation of local structures, and stronger technical cooperation between international organizations, industrialized and industrialising countries could reduce this vulnerability.