Life and Death Matters: Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, Second Edition

by Johnston,Barbara Rose

• ISBN13: 9781598743395
• ISBN10: 1598743392
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens important pathways for further research. Authors reassess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within post-9/11 security and biosecurity frameworks, when global warming and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, when global power and politics are being realigned, and when ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies. This bold new edition of Life and Death Matters will be a widely used textbook and essential reading for students, scholars, and policy makers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Human Rights, Environmental Quality, and Social Justice	p. 9
Economic Development
Distant Processes: The Global Economy and Outer Island Development in Indonesia	p. 29
Uncommon Property Rights in Southwest China	p. 55
	p. 55
Civil Society and Environment in China	p. 62
Snapshot: China Ecocities.doc-Huangbaiyu: Eco-Cities in the Chinese Countryside	p. 77
Biodiversity: Preserving What, for Whom?
African Wildlife: Conservation and Conflict	p. 81
Nature, Development, and Culture in the Zambezi Valley	p. 101
Mineral Wealth versus Biotic Health
The Master Thief: Gold Mining and Mercury Contamination in the Amazon	p. 125
War on Subsistence: Mining Rights at Crandon/Mole Lake	p. 151
Agriculture and Agri-Conflict
Purity and Danger: Regulating Organic Farming	p. 181
Resource Access, Environmental Struggles, and Human Rights in Honduras	p. 209
Snapshot: The Human Right to Eat: Agro-Profiteering and Predictable Food Scarcity	p. 233
Development, Degradation, and Conflict
Mass Tourism on the Mexican Caribbean: Pervasive Changes, Profound Consequences	p. 237
Mexico's Second Institutionalized Revolution: Origins and Impacts of the Chiapas Declarations	p. 263
Postwar Matters
Life and Death Matters in Eritrean Repatriation	p. 285
Environmental Justice, Health, and Safety in Urban South Africa: Alexandra Township Revisited	p. 311
Health, Human Rights, and War: Structural Violence, Armed Conflict, and Human Health in the Andes	p. 333
Snapshot: Sudan: War and Political Violence Are Destructive to Life and Health	p. 349
Snapshot: Considering the Human Health Consequences of War in Iraq	p. 351
Problems That Push the Parameters of Time and Space
Radiation Communities: Fighting for Justice for the Marshall Islands	p. 357
Complex Problems and No Clear Solutions: Radiation Victimization in Russia	p. 381
Snapshot: Building a Clean, Green Nuclear Machine?	p. 407
Climate Change, Culture Change, and Human Rights in Northeastern Siberia	p. 413
Snapshot: Climate Change and the Small Island Experience	p. 427
Snapshot: Beset by Offsets: Carbon Offset Chains and Human Rights Abuses	p. 431
Water and Human Rights	p. 443
Snapshot: From Ecological Disaster to Constitutional Crisis: Dams on Brazil's Xingu River	p. 454
Snapshot: Dam legacies: Guatemala's Chixoy Dam-Affected communities	p. 460
Index	p. 467
About the Authors	p. 483
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