Who Pays the Price?

by Johnston, Barbara Rose

• ISBN13: 9781559633024
• ISBN10: 1559633026
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Human Rights and Environmental Crisis	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Environmental Degradation and Human Rights Abuse	p. 7
Indigenous Rights	p. 17
Resource Wars: Nation and State Conflicts of the Twentieth Century	p. 19
Human Rights, Development, and the Environment in the Peruvian Amazon: The Ashaninka Case	p. 31
The Yanomami Holocaust Continues	p. 37
Gold Miners and Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon: The Hashimu Massacre	p. 47
Human Rights and the Environment in Southern Africa: San Experiences	p. 56
In the Name of National Development	p. 67
Defining the Crisis, Shaping the Response: An Overview of Environmental Issues in China	p. 69
Mineral Development, Environmental Degradation, and Human Rights: The Ok Tedi Mine, Papua New Guinea	p. 86
Competing for Resources: First Nation Rights and Economic Development in the Russian Far East	p. 99
Producing Food for Export: Environmental Quality and Social Justice Implications of Shrimp Mariculture in Honduras	p. 110
Human Rights, Environment, and Development: The Dispossession of Fishing Communities on Lake Malawi	p. 121
In the Name of National Security	p. 129
Experimenting on Human Subjects: Nuclear Weapons Testing and Human Rights Abuse	p. 131
Resource Use and Abuse on Native American Land: Uranium Mining in the American Southwest	p. 142
Response and Responsibility	p. 155
Human Environment and the Notion of Impact	p. 157
Contested Terrain: A Social History of Human Environmental Relations in Arctic Alaska	p. 170
Democracy and Human Rights: Conditions for Sustainable Resource Utilization	p. 187
Environmental Alienation and Resource Management: Virgin Islands Experiences	p. 194
Human Environmental Rights Issues and the Multinational Corporation: Industrial Development in the Free Trade Zone	p. 206
Who Pays the Price? Conclusions	p. 217
The Abuse of Human Environmental Rights: Experience and Response	p. 219
Concluding Remarks...	p. 233
Index	p. 237
Contributors	p. 249
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