Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the Environment at the End of the Millennium

ISBN-10: 0761991840
ISBN-13: 9780761991847
Series: Life and Death Matters
Pages: 351
Language: English
Published: 1997
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Author: Barbara Rose Johnston

Description

A collection of stories, events, and experiences that provide a sense of what life is like for those who confront the environmental crises of our time, and explain why these struggles are important. Topics include local responses to economic development (cases from Indonesia and China); conservation and conflict (cases from Africa); gold mining in the Amazon and Wisconsin; food, conflict, and justice (cases from the US and Honduras); development, degradation, misery, and conflict (case studies in Cancun and Chiapas); post-war matters (Eritrea and South Africa); and radiation victimization (Russia and the Marshall Islands). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR