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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Green guerrillas. Montreal; New York : Black Rose Books, ©1997 (OCoLC)606940577 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Helen Collinson |
| ISBN: | 155164066X 9781551640662 1551640678 9781551640679 |
| OCLC Number: | 36553453 |
| Description: | 250 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction / Helen Collinson -- The crisis and the movement: continental perspectives -- Capitalism and ecological crisis: legacy of the 1980s / Elizabeth Dore -- Social pressure for environmental reform in Latin America / David Kaimowitz -- Indigenous communities and their environments -- Native peoples and sustainable development / Al Gedicks -- The land of our ancestor's bones: Wichi people's struggle in the Argentine Chaco / Aidan Rankin -- How sustainable were pre-Columbian civilizations? / Elizabeth Dore -- Debating indigenous agricultural development: Indian organizations in the central Andes of Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington -- Oil, lawlessness, and indigenous struggles in Ecuador's Oriente / Judith Kimerling -- Colombia's Pacific plan: indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities challenge the developers / Lucy Alexander -- Fight for the forest -- Amazonian Indians and peasants: coping in the age of development / Stephen Nugent -- Did Chico Mendes die in vain? Brazilian rubber tappers in the 1990s / Anthony Hall -- Fruit farming in the Brazilian Amazon: a sustainable alternative / Catherine Matheson -- Pioneer women and the destruction of the rainforests / Janet Townsend -- Can ecotourism save Ecuador's threatened cloud forests? / James Fair -- Modernization: environmental costs and popular responses -- New harvests, old problems: the challenges facing Latin America's agro-export boom / Lori Ann Thrupp -- The price of a perfect flower: environmental destruction and health hazards in the Colombian flower industry / Sarah Stewart -- David vs. Goliath: fishermen conflicts with mariculturalists in Honduras / Denise Stanley -- Confronting Haiti's environmental crisis: a tale of two visions / Charles Arthur -- The greening of Cuba / Peter Rosset -- Puerto Rico's energy fix / Marianne Meyn -- Green crime, green redemption: the environment and ecotourism in the Caribbean / Polly Pattullo -- Where will all the garbage go? Tourism, politics, and the environment in Barbados / Hilary McD Beckles -- Urban ecowarriors: environmental conflicts and initiatives in Latin American cities -- Enlightened cities: the urban environment in Latin America / Julio Davila -- San Salvador: the city versus the forest / Nick Caistor -- Colombia's independent recyclers' union: a model for urban waste management / Margarita Pacheco -- Santo Domingo: an alternative city plan / Jorge Cela -- Curitiba: towards sustainable urban development / Jonas Rabinovitch. |
| Other Titles: | Environmental conflicts and initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Responsibility: | edited by Helen Collinson. |
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- Caribbean Area.
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