Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues An Encyclopedia

Subjects:

• Science » Environmental Science
• Multicultural Studies » Native American Studies
• Science » Energy/Natural Resources
• Multicultural Studies » Multicultural Studies (General)

Reviews:

• 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

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