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Trouble in Paradise
Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a single night in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia in 1985, and grew shrill when rubbertapper Chico Mendes was shot in 1988 trying to
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: When the People Lead
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1 The Scene, Its Problems and Roots
- CHAPTER 2 Pollution Havens on the United States–Mexico Border? NAFTA, Free Trade, and the Environment
- CHAPTER 3 Green Revolutions, Deforestation, and New Ideas
- CHAPTER 4 Hazards of an Urban Continent
- CHAPTER 5 Bio-Splendor, Devastation, and Competing Visions in the Amazon
- CHAPTER 6 Indigenous Peoples, Development Megaprojects, and Internet Resistance
- CHAPTER 7 Building a Global Civil Society: Living What We Know
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Online Resources
- Index