Who Pays the Price? The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis

    Contributions by
  • Debra Schindler
  • Gregory Button
  • Jason Clay
  • John Bodley
  • Leslie Sponsel
  • Margaret A. Byrne
  • Norman A. Chance
  • Roy Rappaport
  • Susan Dawson
  • Susan Stonich
  • William Derman
  • Bruce Albert
  • Erling Berge
  • Daniel Jorgenson

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Published:
Aug 1, 1994
1994
Pages:
265
Size:
6 x 9 in.

Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe — loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in-depth include:

  • human rights and environmental degradation
  • nation-state struggles over indigenous rights
  • rights abuse accompanying resource extraction, weapons production, and tourism development
  • environmental racism, gender bias, and multinational industry double standards
  • social justice environmentalism
The book incorporates material from a wide range of economic and geographic contexts, including case studies from China, Russia, Latin America, the United States, Canada, Africa, and the South Pacific.