Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 026201551X ISBN 13: 9780262015516

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Multinational corporations often exploit natural resources or locate factories inpoor countries far from the demand for the products and profits that result. Developed countriesalso routinely dump hazardous materials and produce greenhouse gas emissions that have adisproportionate impact on developing countries. This book investigates how these and otherglobalized practices exact high social and environmental costs as poor, local communities are forcedto cope with depleted resources, pollution, health problems, and social and cultural disruption.Case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America critically assess howdiverse types of global inequalities play out on local terrains. These range from an assessment ofthe pros and cons of foreign investment in Fiji to an account of the work of transnational activistscombating toxic waste disposal in Mozambique. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate the spatialdisconnect between global consumption and production on the one hand and local environmental qualityand human rights on the other. The result is a rich perspective not only on the ways industries,governments, and consumption patterns may further entrench existing inequalities but also on howemerging networks and movements can foster institutional change and promote social equality andenvironmental justice.

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Julian Agyeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 026201551X
• ISBN 13: 9780262015516
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 303
• Redattore: Carmin Joann, Agyeman Julian
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile