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Titolo: | Environmental justice in Latin America : problems, promise, and practice / / David V. Carruthers, editor |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.70098 |
Soggetto topico: | Environmental justice - Latin America |
Environmental justice - Caribbean Area | |
Soggetto non controllato: | ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy |
Altri autori: | CarruthersDavid V |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Popular Environmentalism and Social Justice in Latin America; I Environmental Justice in Latin America? Global and Conceptual Challenges; 1 Tracing Race: Mapping Environmental Formations in Environmental Justice Research in Latin America; 2 Contesting Trade Politics in the Americas: The Politics of Environmental Justice; 3 Grassroots Reframing of Environmental Struggles in Brazil; II Industrial Development and Environmental Justice; 4 Environmental Conflicts and Environmental Justice in Argentina |
5 Waste Practices and Politics: The Case of Oaxaca, Mexico6 Where Local Meets Global: Environmental Justice on the US-Mexico Border; 7 Environmental Justice in Mexico: The Peñoles Case; III Land, Resources, and Environmental Justice; 8 Ecotourism, Park Systems, and Environmental Justice in Latin America; 9 Environmental Justice and Agricultural Development in the Brazilian Cerrado; 10 Popular Protest and Unpopular Policies: State Restructuring, Resource Conflict, and Social Justice in Bolivia; 11 The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Vieques, Puerto Rico | |
12 Cultural Politics and the Essence of Life: Who Controls the Water?About the Contributors; Urban and Industrial Environments; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Issues of environmental justice form an important part of popular environmental movements in many countries. This work investigates the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that exaime both the promise and the limits of the movement. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Environmental justice in Latin America |
ISBN: | 1-282-09941-8 |
9786612099410 | |
0-262-26995-3 | |
1-4356-3305-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910778334403321 |
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