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Life and death matters : human rights, environment, and social justice
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- Creator
- Barbara Rose Johnston, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 487 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781598743388, 1598743384, 9781598743395, 1598743392
- OCLC
- ocn661183234
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. 1. Economic development. Distant processess: the global economy and outer island development in Indonesia / Lorraine V. Aragon ; Uncommon property rights in Southwest China: trees and tourists / Lindsey Swope ... [et al.] -- pt. 2. Biodiversity: preserving what, for whom? African wildlife: conservation and conflict / Robert K. Hitchcock ; Nature, development, and culture in the Zambezi Valley / Bill Derman -- pt. 3. Mineral wealth vs. biotic health. The master thief: gold mining and mercury contamination in the Amazon / Leslie E. Sponsel ; War on subsistence: mining rights at Crandon/Mole Lake, Wisconsin / Al Gedicks -- pt. 4. Agriculture and agri-conflict. Purity and danger: regulating organic farming / Valerie Wheeler and Peter Esainko ; Resource access, environmental struggles, and human rights in Honduras / James Phillips -- pt. 5. Development, degradation, and conflict. Mass tourism on the Mexican Caribbean : pervasive changes, profound consequences / Oriol Pi-Sunyer and R. Brooke Thomas ; Mexico's second institutionalized revolution : origins and impacts of the Chiapas declarations / David Stea ... [et al.] -- pt. 6. Postwar matters. Life and death matters in Eritrean repatriation / Lucia Ann McSpadden ; Environmental justice, health, and safety in urban South Africa : Alexandra township revisited / Ben Wisner ; Health, human rights, and war : structural violence, armed conflict, and human health in the Andes / Tom Leatherman -- pt. 7. Problems that push the parameters of time and space. Radiation communities : fighting for justice for the Marshall Islands / Holly M. Barker ; Complex problems and no clear solutions: radiation victimization in Russia / Paula Garb -- Climate change, culture change and human rights in Northeastern Siberia / Suan A. Crate -- Water and human rights / Barbara Rose Johnston