The Globalization of Socio-ecological Inequalities: Insights on Transmission Mechanisms between Social and Environmental Processes

One of the most important and welcome changes in recent years has been the attempt by the Social Sciences to overcome the excessive focus on State issues to address inequalities, and focus instead on the trans-regional relationships of interdependence in the various dimensions of inequality. Thus, the presentation of Prof. Dr. Roberto Pereira Guimarães (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas) analyzes the national and international linkages between environmental challenges and the deepening of inequality in Latin America, highlighting the evidence between 1995 and 2005.