J. Timmons Roberts, Nikki Demetria Thanos

Trouble in Paradise

Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents an overview of the pressing nature of environmental degradation issues and the scope of the problems, and seeks to focus our attention on environmental destruction in Latin America by examining several types of environmental crises in Latin American countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780415929790
• ISBN-10: 0415929792
• Artikelnr.: 21306968

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