Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Argentina Australian Aborigines Bangladesh Belize Biodiversity and Indigenous Environmentalism Bolivia Botswana Brazil Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia Cameroon Canada Chad Chile Climate Change and Indigenous Environmentalism Columbia Congo Basin Congo Republic Costa Rica Dam Sites and Indigenous Peoples Ecuador Eritrea Fiji Forest Stewardship Council French Polynesia Ghana Guam Guatemala Guyana Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Environmental Philosophy Honduras India Indigenous Environmentalism and Economic Development Indonesia Iraq Irian Jaya/Papua New Guinea Kenya Malaysia Marianas Islands: PCB Contamination The Marshall Islands: Nuclear Testing 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 (Siberia) The South Pacific Sri Lanka Suriname Thanksgiving Cycles of Native Americans: Ecological Perspectives Thailand Tibet Turkey United States of America Venezuela Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe and Botswana

Promotional Information

This book surveys native peoples from Argentina to Zimbabwe, examining their life-and-death struggles against oil spills, explosions, toxic chemicals, and other pollutants.

About the Author

BRUCE E. JOHANSEN is Professor of Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Reviews

?[T]his eye-opening survey of environmental conflict will serve student researchers well.?-Academia

?A good starting point for students investigating how cultural differences and perspectives affect the environment. Recommended. All libraries.?-Choice

?There are no other current reference books specifically devoted to the global environmental issues of indigenous peoples. This volume is particularly recommended for public and academic libraries.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

?This book shows that more than 170 native peoples around the world are facing life and death struggles to maintain environments threatened by oil spills, explosions, toxic chemicals, global warming, other pollutants, and the like.?-Geauxto.com

?While the reference literature of human ecology is well established, this timely work is the first volume in this field to focus specifically on the complex political and social interactions of indigenous populations with outside threats of development, whether corporate or governmental in nature....Given the highly scattered nature of much of the primary documentation on this issue, this moderately-priced resource belongs in the science collections of all large public libraries as well as college and university libraries supporting undergraduate and graduate programs in anthropology, geography, environmental management, political science and history. Law libraries wishing to have a review of the major locations and conflicts to supplement the coverage of specific cases and points of domestic or international law will also find it of value.?-E-Streams

"ÝT¨his eye-opening survey of environmental conflict will serve student researchers well."-Academia

"[T]his eye-opening survey of environmental conflict will serve student researchers well."-Academia

"A good starting point for students investigating how cultural differences and perspectives affect the environment. Recommended. All libraries."-Choice

"There are no other current reference books specifically devoted to the global environmental issues of indigenous peoples. This volume is particularly recommended for public and academic libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

"This book shows that more than 170 native peoples around the world are facing life and death struggles to maintain environments threatened by oil spills, explosions, toxic chemicals, global warming, other pollutants, and the like."-Geauxto.com

"While the reference literature of human ecology is well established, this timely work is the first volume in this field to focus specifically on the complex political and social interactions of indigenous populations with outside threats of development, whether corporate or governmental in nature....Given the highly scattered nature of much of the primary documentation on this issue, this moderately-priced resource belongs in the science collections of all large public libraries as well as college and university libraries supporting undergraduate and graduate programs in anthropology, geography, environmental management, political science and history. Law libraries wishing to have a review of the major locations and conflicts to supplement the coverage of specific cases and points of domestic or international law will also find it of value."-E-Streams