Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in-depth include: human rights and environmental degradation nation-state struggles over indigenous rights rights abuse accompanying resource extraction, weapons production, and tourism development environmental racism, gender bias, and multinational industry double standards social justice environmentalism The book incorporates material from a wide range of economic and geographic contexts, including case studies from China, Russia, Latin America, the United States, Canada, Africa, and the South Pacific.
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PART I. Human Rights and Environmental Crisis Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Environmental Degradation and Human Rights Abuse
PART II. Indigenous Rights Chapter 3. Resource Wars: Nation and State Conflicts of the Twentieth Century Chapter 4. Human Rights, Development, and the Environment in the Peruvian Amazon: The Ashaninka Case Chapter 5. The Yanomami Holocaust Continues Chapter 6. Gold Miners and Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon: The Hashimu Massacre Chapter 7. Human Rights and the Environment in Southern Africa: San Experiences
PART III. In The Name of National Development Chapter 8. Defining the Crisis, Shaping the Response: An Overview of Environmental Issues in China Chapter 9. Mineral Development, Environmental Degradation, and Human Rights: The Ok Tedi Mine, Papua New Guinea Chapter 10. Competing for Resources: First Nation Rights and Economic Development in the Russian Far East Chapter 11. Producing Food for Export: Environmental Quality and Social Justice Implications of Shrimp Mariculture in Honduras Chapter 12. Human Rights, Environment, and Development: Dispossession of Fishing Communities on Lake Malawi
PART IV. In the Name of National Security Chapter 13. Experimenting On Human Subjects: Nuclear Weapons Testing And Human Rights Abuse Chapter 14. Resource Use And Abuse On Native American Land: Uranium Mining In The American Southwest
PART V. Response And Responsibility Chapter 15. Human Environment and the Notion of Impact Chapter 16. Contested Terrain: A Social History of Human Environmental Relations in Arctic Alaska Chapter 17. Democracy and Human Rights: Conditions for Sustainable Resource Utilization Chapter 18. Environmental Alienation and Resource Management: Virgin Islands Experiences Chapter 19. Human Environmental Rights Issues and the Multinational Corporation: Industrial Development in the Free Trade Zone
PART VI. Who Pays the Price? Conclusions Chapter 20. The Abuse of Human Environmental Rights: Experience and Response Chapter 21. Concluding Remarks
