Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders Local Perspectives on Global Injustices

Name: Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders Local Perspectives on Global Injustices
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ISBN: 9780262515870

ISBN-10: 0262515873

ISBN-13: 9780262515870

Edition: 2011

Authors: JoAnn Carmin, Julian Agyeman

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Multinational corporations often exploit natural resources or locate factories in poor countries far from the demand for the products and profits that result. Developed countries also routinely dump hazardous materials and produce greenhouse gas emissions that have a disproportionate impact on developing countries. This book investigates how these and other globalized practices exact high social and environmental costs as poor, local communities are forced to cope with depleted resources, pollution, health problems, and social and cultural disruption. Case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America critically assess how diverse types of global inequalities play out…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Environmental Injustice Beyond Borders




Consumption and the Rise of Inequalities Beyond Borders



Spatial Justice and Climate Change: Multiscale Impacts and Local Development in Durban, South Africa




Learning from the Quest for Environmental Justice in the Niger River Delta




Foreign Investment and Environmental Justice in an Island Economy: Mining, Bottled Water, and Corporate Social Responsibility in Fiji




The Amplification of Inequality through International Donors and Institutions



Global Civil Society and the Distribution of Environmental Goods: Funding for Environmental NGOs in Ecuador




Environmental Justice, Values, and Biological Diversity: The San and the Hoodia Benefit-Sharing Agreement




Global Environmental Governance and Pathways for the Achievement of Environmental Justice




Networked Responses to Global Inequality



Governing and Contesting China's Oil Operations in the Global South




Resisting Environmental Injustice through Sustainable Agriculture: Examples from Latin America and Their Implications for U.S. Food Politics




Going Beyond the State to Strengthen the Rule of Law: Local Activists, Transnational Networks, and Gold Mining in Bulgaria




Politics by Other Greens: The Importance of Transnational Environmental Justice Movement Networks




Conclusion



Reflections on Environmental Inequality Beyond Borders



About the Contributors


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