Life and death matters

By:

Johnston, Barbara Rose (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; Altamira; 1996Description: 351 pISBN:

9780761991854

Subject(s):

Environment policy

DDC classification:

333.7 LIF

Summary: Life and Death Matters is a collection of stories, events, and experiences that provide a sense of what life is like for those who confront the environmental crises of our time. Barbara Johnston, editor and principal author of Who Pays the Price?, once again puts her knowledge of human rights and environmental action to work to create a groundbreaking text, explicating how the life and death struggles of peoples across the globe do matter: to those involved, to those inti mately and distantly responsible, and to the many who will, unless lasting solutions are found, sooner or later experience similar difficulties in their own lives. Topics discussed: ♦Local responses to economic development (cases from Indonesia and China) ♦ Conservation and conflict (cases from Africa) ◆ Gold mining in the Amazon and Wisconsin ◆Food, conflict, and justice (cases from the US and Honduras) ♦ Development, degradation, misery, and conflict (case studies in Cancun and Chiapas) ♦Post-war matters (Eritrea and South Africa)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	333.7 LIF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		83022

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Life and Death Matters is a collection of stories, events, and experiences that provide a sense of what life is like for those who confront the environmental crises of our time. Barbara Johnston, editor and principal author of Who Pays the Price?, once again puts her knowledge of human rights and environmental action to work to create a groundbreaking text, explicating how the life and death struggles of peoples across the globe do matter: to those involved, to those inti mately and distantly responsible, and to the many who will, unless lasting solutions are found, sooner or later experience similar difficulties in their own lives.

Topics discussed:

♦Local responses to economic development (cases from Indonesia and China) ♦ Conservation and conflict (cases from Africa)

◆ Gold mining in the Amazon and Wisconsin

◆Food, conflict, and justice (cases from the US and Honduras)

♦ Development, degradation, misery, and conflict (case studies in Cancun and Chiapas)

♦Post-war matters (Eritrea and South Africa)

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