Who Pays the Price?: The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559633026 ISBN 13: 9781559633024

Publisher: Island Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1559633026
• ISBN 13: 9781559633024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 265
• Editor: Johnston Barbara Rose