Life and death matters : human rights and the environment at the end of the millennium /
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| Imprint: | Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c1997. |
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| Description: | 351 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2626781 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Life and Death Matters at the End of the Millennium / Barbara Rose Johnston
- Pt. 1. Economic Development: Global Forces/Local Responses. 1. Distant Processes: The Global Economy and Outer Island Development in Indonesia / Lorraine V. Aragon. 2. Uncommon Property Rights in Southwest China: Trees and Tourists / Lindsey Swope, Margaret Byrne Swain and Fuquan Yang [et al.]
- Pt. 2. Biodiversity: Preserving What, for Whom? 3. Nature, Development, and Culture in the Zambezi Valley / Bill Derman. 4. African Wildlife: Conservation and Conflict / Robert K. Hitchcock
- Pt. 3. Mineral Wealth vs. Biotic Health. 5. The Master Thief: Gold Mining and Mercury Contamination in the Amazon / Leslie E. Sponsel. 6. War on Subsistence: Mining Rights at Crandon/Mole Lake, Wisconsin / Al Gedicks
- Pt. 4. Agriculture and Agri-Conflict. 7. Purity and Danger: Regulating Organic Farming / Valerie Wheeler and Peter Esainko. 8. Resource Access, Environmental Struggles, and Human Rights in Honduras / James Phillips
- Pt. 5. Development, Degradation, Misery, and Conflict. 9. Tourism, Environmentalism, and Cultural Survival in Quintana Roo / Oriol Pi-Sunyer and R. Brooke Thomas. 10. Environment, Development, and Indigenous Revolution in Chiapas / David Stea, Siliva Elguea and Camilo Perez Bustillo
- Pt. 6. Postwar Matters. 11. Life and Death Matters in Eritrean Repatriation / Lucia Ann McSpadden. 12. Environmental Justice, Health, and Safety in Urban South Africa / Ben Wisner
- Pt. 7. Problems that Push the Parameters of Time and Space. 13. Fighting Back: Justice, the Marshall Islands, and Neglected Radiation Communities / Holly M. Barker. 14. Complex Problems and No Clear Solutions: Radiation Victimization in Russia / Paula Garb
- Conclusion: Crisis, Chaos, Conflict, and Change / Barbara Rose Johnston
- Appendix. Draft Principles on Human Rights and the Environment / United Nations Human Rights Commission.
