Who Pays the Price?: The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis
Who Pays the Price?: The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis
contributions by Jason Clay, John Bodley, Bruce Albert, Erling Berge, Daniel Jorgenson, Norman A. Chance, Roy Rappaport, Gregory Button, William Derman, Debra Schindler, Susan Dawson, Susan Stonich, Margaret A. Byrne and Leslie Sponsel edited by Barbara Rose Johnston
Island Press, 1994 Cloth: 978-1-55963-302-4 | eISBN: 978-1-61091-367-6 | Paper: 978-1-55963-303-1 Library of Congress Classification JA75.8.W57 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 363.7
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in-depth include:
human rights and environmental degradation
nation-state struggles over indigenous rights
rights abuse accompanying resource extraction, weapons production, and tourism development
environmental racism, gender bias, and multinational industry double standards
social justice environmentalism
The book incorporates material from a wide range of economic and geographic contexts, including case studies from China, Russia, Latin America, the United States, Canada, Africa, and the South Pacific.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Barbara Rose Johnston is an environmental anthropologist and research associate at the Center for Political Ecology in Santa Cruz, California.
The Society For Applied Anthropology was founded in 1941 to promote the investigation of the principles of human behavior and the application of these principles to contemporary issues and problems.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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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