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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bruce E Johansen |
| ISBN: | 0313323984 9780313323980 |
| OCLC Number: | 51559162 |
| Description: | xlii, 506 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | Argentina -- Australian Aborigines -- Bangladesh -- Belize -- Biodiversity and indigenous environmentalism -- Bolivia -- Botswana -- Brazil -- Burma (Myanmar) -- Cambodia -- Cameroon -- Canada -- Chad -- Chile -- Climate change and indigenous environmentalism -- Colombia -- Congo basin -- Congo Republic -- Costa Rica -- Dam sites and indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Eritrea -- Fiji -- Forest stewardship council -- French Polynesia -- Ghana -- Guatemala -- Guyana -- The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) environmental worldview: different trees in a different forest / Robert W. Venables -- Honduras -- India -- Indigenous environmentalism and economic development -- Indonesia -- Iraq -- Irian Jaya/Papua New Guinea -- Kenya -- Malaysia (Sarawak) -- Marianas Islands -- Marshall Islands -- 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 (Serbia) -- The South Pacific -- Sri Lanka -- Suriname -- Thailand -- Thanksgiving ceremonial cycles of Native Americans: ecological perspectives -- Tibet -- Turkey -- United States of America -- Venezuela -- Yemen -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe and Botswana: an alliance for wildlife. |
| Responsibility: | Bruce E. Johansen. |
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Abstract:
Also includes information on alcoholism, animals, toxins and breast feeding, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), George W. Bush, cancer, China, climate change, colonization, cyanide, dams, Declaration of the First International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change, deforestation, disease introduction, Native American concept of ecology, economics, ExxonMobil, fishing, fur trade, genocide, gold mining, health problems, human rights violations, hunting, hydroelectric power, infants and children, International Monetary Fund, Japan, Judeo-Christian worldview, land tenure, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, mining, Movement for the Survival of The Ogoni (MOSOP), Native Americans, natural gas exploitation, nuclear testing, nuclear waste dumps, oil exploitation, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), pollution, protests, rainforests, Rio Tinto, Russia, Shell Oil, submarine tailings disposal (STD), suicide, tourism, United States, water pollution, World Bank, etc.
Other peoples covered include: Kolla, Mapuche, Wichis, Australian Aborigines, Mopan, Kekchi, Khwe (Kalahari Bushmen), Apurina, Paumari, Deni, Juma, Guarani, Kaiowa, Kaiapo, Panara, Pataxo, Pemon, Yanomami, Pygmies, Crees, Pimicikamak Cree, Lubicon Cree, Dene, Kanesatake Mohawks, Tlingit, Innu, Ouje-Bougoumou Cree, Dogrib, Ojibway, Pehuenche, Mapuche, Uʼwa, Embera, Tabaco, Achuar, Shuar, Waorani, Tigre, Beni Amer, Hidareb, Kunama, Namosi, Serua, Nadroga, Rewa, Te Ao Maohi Moorea, Chamorro, Achi Maya, Champerico, Isseneru, Akawaio, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Penan, Batak, Kurds, Moi, Kwale, Maasai, Ogiek, Maya, Huichole, Maori, Mayagna (Sumo), Ngobe-Bugle, Urarina (Kacha), Aguaruna, Marinduque Islanders, Lumad, Evenk, Khanty, Nenet, Wanniyala-Aetto, Saramaka Maroons, Lahu, Hmong, Karen, Penobscot, Yaqui, Point Hope Eskimos, Gwichʼin, Hopi, Navajo, Quechan, Seminole, Coeur dʼAlene, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Northern Cheyenne, Western Shoshone, Zuni, Oklahoma Cherokee, Cheyenne River Sioux, Oglala Lakota, Goshute, Blackfeet, Makah, Yakama, Wisconsin Chippewa, Pemon, Warao, Jahm, etc.
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