Life and Death Matters: Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice

ISBN-13: 9781598743395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 487 str.

Barbara Rose Johnston

Opis

The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens important pathways for further research. Authors reassess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within post-9/11 security and biosecurity frameworks, when global warming and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, when global power and politics are being realigned, and when ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies. This bold new edition of Life and Death Matters will be a widely used textbook and essential reading for students, scholars, and policy makers.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Human Rights, Environmental Quality, and Social Justice, Barbara Rose Johnston; Part I Economic Development; Chapter 2 Distant Processes: The Global Economy and Outer Island Development in Indonesia, Lorraine V. Aragon; Chapter 3 Uncommon Property Rights in Southwest China, Lindsey Swope, Margaret Byrne Swain, Fuquan Yang, Jack D. Ives, Tilt Bryan; Chapter 4 Snapshot: China Ecocitis.doc—Huangbaiyu: Eco-Cities in the Chinese Countryside, Shannon May; Part II Biodiversity: Preserving What, for Whom?; Chapter 4a African Wildlife: Conservation and Conflict, Robert K. Hitchcock; Chapter 5 Nature, Development, and Culture in the Zambezi Valley, Bill Derman, Mike Makina, Mushumbi Pools, Lazarus Zhuwao, Basiyao Zimbabwe; Part III Mineral Wealth versus Biotic Health; Chapter 6 The Master Thief: Gold Mining and Mercury Contamination in the Amazon, Leslie E. Sponsel; Chapter 7 War on Subsistence: Mining Rights at Crandon/Mole Lake, Wisconsin, Al Gedicks; Part IV Agriculture and Agri-Conflict; Chapter 8 Purity and Danger: Regulating Organic Farming, Valerie Wheeler, Peter Esainko; Chapter 9 Resource Access, Environmental Struggles, and Human Rights in Honduras, James Phillips; Chapter 10 Snapshot: The Human Right to Eat: Agro-Profiteering and Predictable Food Scarcity, Joan P. Mencher; Part V Development, Degradation, and Conflict; Chapter 10a Mass Tourism on the Mexican Caribbean: Pervasive Changes, Profound Consequences, Oriol Pi-Sunyer, R. Brooke Thomas; Chapter 11 Mexico's Second Institutionalized Revolution: Origins and Impacts of the Chiapas Declarations, David Stea, Camilo Perez Bustillo, Betse Davies, Silvia Elguea; Part VI Postwar Matters; Chapter 12 Life and Death Matters in Eritrean Repatriation, Lucia Ann McSpadden; Chapter 13 Environmental Justice, Health, and Safety in Urban South Africa: Alexandra Township Revisited, Ben Wisner; Chapter 14 Health, Human Rights, and War: Structural Violence, Armed Conflict, and Human Health in the Andes, Tom Leatherman; Chapter 15 Snapshot: War and Political Violence Are Destructive to Life and Health, Ellen Gruenbaum; Chapter 16 Snapshot: Considering the Human Health Consequences of War in Iraq, Marcia C. Inhorn; Part VII Problems That Push the Parameters of Time and Space; Chapter 15a Radiation Communities: Fighting for Justice for the Marshall Islands, Holly M. Barker; Chapter 16a Complex Problems and No Clear Solutions: Radiation Victimization in Russia, Paula Garb; Chapter 17 Snapshot: Building a Clean, Green Nuclear Machine?, Barbara Rose Johnston; Chapter 17a Climate Change, Culture Change, and Human Rights in Northeastern Siberia, Susan A. Crate; Chapter 18 Snapshot: Climate Change and the Small Island Experience, Holly M. Barker; Chapter 19 Snapshot: Beset by Offsets: Carbon Offset Chains and Human Rights Abuses, Melissa Checker; Chapter 18a Water and Human Rights, Barbara Rose Johnston; Chapter 20 Snapshot: From Ecological Disaster to Constitutional Crisis: Dams on Brazil's Xingu River, Terence Turner; Chapter 21 Snapshot: Dam Legacies: Guatemala's Chixoy Dam-Affected Communities, Barbara Rose Johnston;

O autorze

Barbara Rose Johnston