Landscapes of Inequity (eBook, ePUB)

Environmental Justice in the Andes-Amazon Region
Redaktion: Robins, Nicholas A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar mining, oil and gas, and timber operations. Modern demands for commodities have given rise to new development schemes, including hydroelectric dams, open cast mines, and industrial agricultural operations. The history of human habitation in this region is intimately tied to its rich biodiversity, and the Amazon basin is home to scores of indigenous groups, many of whom have populations so small that their cultural and physical survival is endangered.Landscapes of Inequity explores the debate over rights to and use of resources and addresses fundamental questions that inform the debate in the western Amazon basin, from the Andes Mountains to the tropical lowlands. Beginning with an examination of the divergent conceptual interpretations of environmental justice, the volume explores the issue from two interlocking perspectives: of indigenous peoples and of economic development in a global economy. The volume concludes by examining the efficacy of laws and policies concerning the environment in the region, the viability and range of judicial recourse, and future directions in the field of environmental justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496221391
• Artikelnr.: 60866542

Autorenporträt

Nicholas A. Robins is a teaching professor of history at North Carolina State University. He is the author of several books, including Mercury, Mining, and Empire: The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes and Of Love and Loathing: Marital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750–1825 (Nebraska, 2015). Barbara J. Fraser is a freelance writer covering environmental, public health, indigenous, and social issues. Her work has appeared in publications including Nature, Science, EcoAmericas, the Lancet, and Discover.    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Maps    
List of Tables    
Introduction    
Barbara J. Fraser and Nicholas A. Robins
Part 1. Extracting Resources, Imposing Inequity
1. A Toxic Reckoning: Legacy Contamination in Huancavelica, Peru    
Nicholas A. Robins
2. When the Rivers Run Black: Oil and Inequity in the Western Amazon    
Barbara J. Fraser
Part 2. Macro-Development and Marginalization
3. Environmental Justice and Brazil’s Amazonian Dams    
Philip M. Fearnside
4. When Plurinational States Undermine Indigenous Territories: TIPNIS in
Bolivia    
Carwil Bjork-James
5. Environmental Justice in the REDD+ Frontier: Experiences from the Amazon
and Beyond    
Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti and Anne M. Larson
Part 3. Territorial Rights, Ecocosmology, and the Quest for Environmental
Justice
6. Indigenism, Isolation, and Socioenvironmental Conflicts in the Javari
River Valley    
Barbara Arisi and Felipe Milanez
7. We Are Here: The State of Community-Based Landscapes in Peru    
Richard Chase Smith
8. In Search of Justice and Power: Contentious Experiences of Free, Prior,
and Informed Consent in Latin America    
Roger Merino
9. Indigenous Amazonian Peoples and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
in Lowland South America    
Jonathan D. Hill
Epilogue: Is Environmental Justice in the Andes-Amazon Region Illusive,
Elusive, or within Reach?    
Barbara J. Fraser and Nicholas A. Robins
Contributors    
Index