Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues

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Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues An Encyclopedia

By Bruce E. Johansen

ISBN: 0-313-32398-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32398-0

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552 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 12/30/2003

List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)

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A good starting point for students investigating how cultural differences and perspectives affect the environment. Recommended. All libraries.
—Choice June 2004
While the reference literature of human ecology is well established, this timely work is the first volume in this field to focus specifically on the complex political and social interactions of indigenous populations with outside threats of development, whether corporate or governmental in nature....Given the highly scattered nature of much of the primary documentation on this issue, this moderately-priced resource belongs in the science collections of all large public libraries as well as college and university libraries supporting undergraduate and graduate programs in anthropology, geography, environmental management, political science and history. Law libraries wishing to have a review of the major locations and conflicts to supplement the coverage of specific cases and points of domestic or international law will also find it of value.
—E-Streams September 2004
This book shows that 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, other pollutants, and the like.
—Geauxto.com .
There are no other current reference books specifically devoted to the global environmental issues of indigenous peoples. This volume is particularly recommended for public and academic libraries.
—Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin May 15, 2004
[T]his eye-opening survey of environmental conflict will serve student researchers well.
—Academia April 2004

Description: From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the industrialized world's encroachment on native lands has brought disastrous environmental harm to indigenous peoples. This unique resource surveys those indigenous peoples and the environmental hazards that threaten their existence, providing a wealth of information not readily available elsewhere.

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

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