Trouble in Paradise Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America

Name: Trouble in Paradise Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America
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ISBN: 9780415929806

ISBN-10: 0415929806

ISBN-13: 9780415929806

Edition: 2003

Authors: J. Timmons Roberts, Nikki Demetria Thanos, David Helvarg

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Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a single night in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia in 1985, and grew shrill when rubbertapper Chico Mendes was shot in 1988 trying to stop ranchers from clearing rainforests near his home in Acre. Since the early 80s, we've heard pleas from rock star, environmental groups, and scientists, asking us to focus our attention on environmental destruction in Latin America-oil spills, lax NAFTA driven ecological standards, endangered indigenous cultures, and the destruction of the…

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List price: $67.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/23/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword: When the People Lead



Preface



The Scene, Its Problems and Roots



Pollution Havens on the United States--Mexico Border? NAFTA, Free Trade, and the Environment



Green Revolutions, Deforestation, and New Ideas



Hazards of an Urban Continent



Bio-Splendor, Devastation, and Competing Visions in the Amazon



Indigenous Peoples, Development Megaprojects, and Internet Resistance



Building a Global Civil Society: Living What We Know


Notes


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Index