Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues

An Encyclopedia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-12-30
Mått:263 x 186 x 37 mm
Vikt:1 158 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:552
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313323980

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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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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