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Who Pays the Price?: The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis
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:
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. See other books on: Albert, Bruce | Environmental Crisis | Green movement | Human rights | Price See other titles from Island Press |
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Who Pays the Price?: The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis
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.
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Island Press, 1994
Cloth: 978-1-55963-302-4
eISBN: 978-1-61091-367-6
Paper: 978-1-55963-303-1
Cloth: 978-1-55963-302-4
eISBN: 978-1-61091-367-6
Paper: 978-1-55963-303-1
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.
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