Brazil Environmental Stability

Brazil Environmental Stability

Brazil's environmental record in the new millennium is mixed. Basic sanitation in urban areas, including waste disposal and water treatment, have both improved. Large Brazilian companies are increasingly adopting international standards of conduct and environmental quality, due in part to international demand for corporate accountability. But tensions between Ministries over questions of development and the environment have led the government to favor continued expansion of soybeans and other agricultural exports into the Amazon and other fragile environments, in order to help Brazil pay its national debt via economic growth (De Vasconcelo, 2008).

Population growth in underdeveloped countries is ...