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Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues An Encyclopedia
Bruce E. Johansen
ISBN: 0-313-32398-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32398-0
552 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 12/30/2003
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)
Discount Price: $49.48 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Description: From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the industrialized world's encroachment on native lands has brought disastrous environmental harm to indigenous peoples. More than 170 native peoples around the world are facing life-and-death struggles to maintain environments threatened by oil spills, explosions, toxic chemicals, global warming, and other pollutants. This unique resource surveys those indigenous peoples and the environmental hazards that threaten their existence, providing a wealth of information not readily available elsewhere.

Arranged geographically, each entry focuses on the peoples of a particular country and the environmental issues they face, from the global warming and toxic chemicals threatening the Arctic Inuits, to the logging that is devastating indigenous habitats in Borneo. General entries overview such topics as climate change, dam sites, and Native American Concepts of Ecology. The 'Guide to Related Topics' and index provide access to recurring themes such as deforestation, hydroelectric power, mining, and land tenure.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction
    Argentina
    Australian Aborigines
    Bangladesh
    Belize
    Biodiversity and Indigenous Environmentalism
    Bolivia
    Botswana
    Brazil
    Burma (Myanmar)
    Cambodia
    Cameroon
    Canada
    Chad
    Chile
    Climate Change and Indigenous Environmentalism
    Columbia
    Congo Basin
    Congo Republic
    Costa Rica
    Dam Sites and Indigenous Peoples
    Ecuador
    Eritrea
    Fiji
    Forest Stewardship Council
    French Polynesia
    Ghana
    Guam
    Guatemala
    Guyana
    Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Environmental Philosophy
    Honduras
    India
    Indigenous Environmentalism and Economic Development
    Indonesia
    Iraq
    Irian Jaya/Papua New Guinea
    Kenya
    Malaysia
    Marianas Islands: PCB Contamination
    The Marshall Islands: Nuclear Testing
    Mexico
    Mother Earth, as Ecological Metaphor
    Native American Conceptions of Ecology
    New Zealand
    Nicaragua
    Nigeria
    Noble Savage, "The Ecological Indian"
    Pakistan
    Panama
    Peru
    Philippines
    Russia (Siberia)
    The South Pacific
    Sri Lanka
    Suriname
    Thanksgiving Cycles of Native Americans: Ecological Perspectives
    Thailand
    Tibet
    Turkey
    United States of America
    Venezuela
    Yemen
    Zambia
    Zimbabwe and Botswana
About the Author: BRUCE E. JOHANSEN is Professor of Communication and Native American studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He has authored a number of books on indigenous and environmental subjects, the two most recent being The Global Warming Desk Reference (2001) and The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future (2003).
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