Landscapes of inequity: Environmental justice in the Andes-Amazon region

Landscapes of inequity: Environmental justice in the Andes-Amazon region Edited and with an introduction by Nicholas A. Robins and Barbara J. Fraser. - Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press: 2020 - xxxi, 347 p.: maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A toxic reckoning : legacy contamination in Huancavelica, Peru / Nicholas A. Robins -- When the rivers run black : oil and inequity in the Western Amazon / Barbara J. Fraser -- Environmental justice and Brazil's Amazonian dams / Philip M. Fearnside -- When plurinational states undermine indigenous territories : TIPNIS in Bolivia / Carwil Bjork-James -- Environmental justice in the REDD+ frontier : experiences from the Amazon and beyond / Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti and Anne M. Larson -- Indigenism, isolation, and socioenvironmental conflicts in the Javari River Valley / Barbara Arisi and Felipe Milanez -- We are here : the state of community-based landscapes in Peru / Richard Chase Smith -- In search of justice and power : contentious experiences of free, prior, and informed consent in Latin America / Roger Merino -- Indigenous Amazonian peoples and the struggle for environmental justice in lowland South America / Jonathan D. Hill -- Epilogue: Is environmental justice in the Andes-Amazon region illusive, elusive, or within reach? / Barbara J. Fraser and Nicholas A. Robins.

"Landscapes of Inequity examines a range of environmental justice issues in the Andes and western Amazon basin from the perspectives of indigenous peoples and economic development in a global economy"--

9781496208026 1496208021

2019053414


2000-2099


Environmental justice--Andes Region.
Environmental justice--Amazon River Region.
Ethnoecology--Andes Region.
Ethnoecology--Amazon River Region.
Economic development--Environmental aspects--Andes Region.
Economic development--Environmental aspects--Amazon River Region.
Ecology.
Economic development--Environmental aspects.
Environmental justice.
Ethnoecology.
Ethno�okologie
Nachhaltigkeit
Umweltgerechtigkeit
Wirtschaftswachstum


Andes Region--Environmental conditions--21st century.
Amazon River Region--Environmental conditions--21st century.
Amazon River Region.
Andes Region.
Amazonas-Gebiet
Anden

GE240.A46 / L36 2020

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