| English term or phrase: Rescaling | Am trying to find the best possible translation for 'rescaling' in the following context.
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4.4. The ‘‘glocalization’’ of Amazonian development (1983-present)
Environmental degradation in Rondonia, and similar results in other so-called ‘‘mega-development’’ projects around the globe, attracted the attention of internationally organized non-governmental organizations (NGOs), mostly environmental and human rights advocates based in the US and Europe (Rich, 1994). As long-time critics of the partnership between national governments and international agents like multilateral development banks (MDBs) and transnational corporations (TNCs), the NGOs criticized the hegemony of this arrangement in making development decisions around the world, arguing it lacked social and environmental concern. To correct these shortcomings in Brazil, they called for what was essentially a ‘‘glocalization’’ of development decision-making. They found allies among ‘‘local people’’ in Amazonia: grassroots organizations who had organized locally and regionally to halt the immediate threats to their traditional livelihoods caused by deforestation (Leroy and Soares, 1998; Perdiga˜o and Bassegio, 1992; Waldman, 1992). Those local interests and the international NGOs called for authority to be transferred away from national governments and toward both a more international (or global) scale and a more local scale. In advocating for more international control, they were not calling for more control for MDBs and TNCs. Rather they advocated a new sort of international scale comprising an alliance among interests in which NGOs played a much more prominent role (World Bank, 1990). Thus their vision for internationalization involved the reformulation of the international scale and the political and economic interests which operated at that scale. Their vision for localization called for a devolution of decision-making and economic power from MDBs, TNCs, and national governments to groups whose operations were relatively more local in scale. In the case of Rondonia that meant indigenous groups, rubber tappers, colonist farmers, and ribeirinhos (floodplain dwellers), whose agendas had until then been poorly represented at the national and international scales.
Thus the ‘‘rain forest crisis’’ and its solutions were marked by a specific political campaign of RESCALING designed to reduce the influence of a mega-development agenda and increase the control of those who favored smaller projects that were sensitive to both environmental and social justice. The campaign was greatly aided by partnerships between NGOs and locally organized grassroots organizations around the world. In the Amazonian case, the first-world public empathized with wellspoken Brazilian organizers, both indigenous and nonindigenous, who traveled to the global North to call for devolution. Invited by the NGOs, they met face-toface with US legislators and MDB officials, arguing that mega-development was spoiling their forest and killing their people. The alliances made during the campaign between local grassroots organizations and the international NGOs tended to bypass the Brazilian government, which argued that such arrangements did not respect Brazilian sovereignty (Rich, 1994). |
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