Environmental Justice in Latin America

Problems, Promise, and Practice

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ID19968069
AuthorsDavid Carruthers (0000-0003-3363-0992, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author)
EditorsDavid V Carruthers
Year2008
Pages336
Publication date2008-02-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEnvironmental Justice in Latin America (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/9780262033725.001.0001
OpenAlexW646521148
Open LibraryOL10236864M
ISBN9780262033725
LanguageEN
Citations received107

Scholars and activists investigate the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that illustrate the connections between popular environmental mobilization and social justice in the region. Environmental justice concerns form an important part of popular environmental movements in many countries. Activists, scholars, and policymakers in the developing world, for example, increasingly use the tools of environmental justice to link concerns over social justice and environmental well-being. Environmental Justice in Latin America investigates the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analyses and case studies that examine both the promise and the limits of environmental justice in Latin America and the Caribbean—both as a rallying point for popular mobilization and as a set of principles for analysis and policymaking. After considering such conceptual issues as the connection between environmental conditions and race, trade, and social justice, the book presents a series of case studies. These studies focus first on industrial development, examining such topics as social tension over “megadevelopment” projects in Argentina and the concentrated industrial waste hazards of the export assembly plants on the U.S.-Mexico border, and then on the power and politics involved in land and resource use. Other chapters explore ecotourism, inequitable land distribution in Brazil, the ongoing struggle for justice and accountability over the former U.S. Navy bombing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and water policy in Chile, Bolivia, and Mexico. Taken together, the analyses and case studies suggest that environmental justice—which highlights both broader issues of global injustice and local concerns—holds tremendous promise as a way to understand and address environmental inequities in Latin America and elsewhere. Contributors Henri Acselrad, David V. Carruthers, Jordi Díez, Katherine T. McCaffrey, Sarah A. Moore, Peter Newell, Tom Perreault, Carlos Reboratti, Reyes Rodríguez, Juanita Sundberg, Stefanie Wickstrom, Wendy Wolford, Michele Zebich-Knos

Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Latin Americans · Political science · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental law and policy · Law · Philosophy · Caribbean area · Environmental · Environmental policy · Environmental Science · Environmental studies · Latin America · Latin America - General · politics and government · The Environment

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