Who Pays the Price?

ISLAND PRESSISBN: 9781559633031

The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis

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Contributions by Jason Clay, Roy Rappaport, Gregory Button, William Derman, Debra Schindler, Susan Dawson, Susan Stonich, Margaret A. Byrne, Leslie Sponsel, John Bodley
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269

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Acknowledgments
 
PART I. Human Rights and Environmental Crisis
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Environmental Degradation and Human Rights Abuse
 
PART II. Indigenous Rights
Chapter 3. Resource Wars: Nation and State Conflicts of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 4. Human Rights, Development, and the Environment in the Peruvian Amazon: The Ashaninka Case
Chapter 5. The Yanomami Holocaust Continues
Chapter 6. Gold Miners and Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon: The Hashimu Massacre
Chapter 7. Human Rights and the Environment in Southern Africa: San Experiences
 
PART III. In The Name of National Development
Chapter 8. Defining the Crisis, Shaping the Response: An Overview of Environmental Issues in China
Chapter 9. Mineral Development, Environmental Degradation, and Human Rights: The Ok Tedi Mine, Papua New Guinea
Chapter 10. Competing for Resources: First Nation Rights and Economic Development in the Russian Far East
Chapter 11. Producing Food for Export: Environmental Quality and Social Justice Implications of Shrimp Mariculture in Honduras
Chapter 12. Human Rights, Environment, and Development: Dispossession of Fishing Communities on Lake Malawi
 
PART IV. In the Name of National Security
Chapter 13. Experimenting On Human Subjects: Nuclear Weapons Testing And Human Rights Abuse
Chapter 14. Resource Use And Abuse On Native American Land: Uranium Mining In The American Southwest
 
PART V. Response And Responsibility
Chapter 15. Human Environment and the Notion of Impact
Chapter 16. Contested Terrain: A Social History of Human Environmental Relations in Arctic Alaska
Chapter 17. Democracy and Human Rights: Conditions for Sustainable Resource Utilization
Chapter 18. Environmental Alienation and Resource Management: Virgin Islands Experiences
Chapter 19. Human Environmental Rights Issues and the Multinational Corporation: Industrial Development in the Free Trade Zone
 
PART VI. Who Pays the Price? Conclusions
Chapter 20. The Abuse of Human Environmental Rights: Experience and Response
Chapter 21. Concluding Remarks
 
Index
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