J. Roberts Timmons

Trouble in Paradise (eBook, ePUB)

Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a single night in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia in 1985, and grew shrill when rubbertapper Chico Mendes was shot in 1988 trying to

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136745508
• Artikelnr.: 39450437

Autorenporträt

J. Timmons Roberts is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mellon Program in Environmental Science and Policy at the College of William and Mary. He is author of Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline, and From Modernization to Globalization. Nikki DemetriaThanos works in MDexico as a Popular Educator and Political Analyst for Witness For Peace, a US-based non-profit organization. She studied environmental policy and Latin American studies at Tulane University, and has conducted research in Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, MDexico and the Andes.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements 1. The Scene
Its Problems and Roots 2. Pollution Havens on the U.S./Mexico Border? NAFTA
Free Trade
and the Environment 3. Green Revolutions
Deforestation
and New Ideas 4. Hazards of an Urban Continent 5. Bio-splendor
Devastation and Competing Visions in the Amazon 6. Indigenous Peoples
Development Megaprojects
and Internet Resistance
With Leo B. Gorman 7. Building a Global Civil Society: Living What We Know