Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice

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David V. Carruthers (Professor, San Diego State University) David V. Carruthers (Professor, San Diego State University)

Environmental Justice in Latin America

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Problems, Promise, and Practice

David V. Carruthers (Professor, San Diego State University), David V. Carruthers (Professor, San Diego State University), Juanita Sundberg (University of British Columbia) , Peter J. Newell

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MIT Press
15 February 2008

The environment

Series: Environmental Justice in Latin America

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 Diez, Katherine T. McCaffrey, Sarah A. Moore, Peter Newell, Tom Perreault, Carlos Reboratti, Reyes Rodriguez, Juanita Sundberg, Stefanie Wickstrom, Wendy Wolford, Michele Zebich-Knos

Contributions by: David V. Carruthers (Professor San Diego State University), Juanita Sundberg (University of British Columbia), Peter J. Newell, Henri Acselrad (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Edited by: David V. Carruthers (Professor San Diego State University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780262533003
ISBN 10: 0262533006
Series: Environmental Justice in Latin America
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 15 February 2008
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David V. Carruthers is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University. David V. Carruthers is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University. Peter J. Newell is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely on the political economy of the environment, including the books Climate for Change (2000), The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy (2000), co-authored with Wyn Grant and Duncan Matthews, Development and the Challenge of Globalisation (2002), co-edited with Shirin M. Rai and Andrew Scott. He currently works on issues of corporate regulation and accountability and the politics of GMO regulation. David V. Carruthers is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University.

Reviews for Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice

Finally, a reader on environmental justice in Latin America! This volume brings together fascinating cases from across the region on a range of environmental issues, written by leading experts in the field. Best of all, the work thoughtfully documents and conceptualizes the long history of struggles and injustices in the region which were never called 'environmental justice.' Where the phrase is being adopted, the authors describe how it is also being adapted, transformed, and reborn. This will be required reading in my courses, and I believe it will be pivotal in advancing international discussion on the issue. --J. Timmons Roberts, Professor of Sociology, and Interim Director, Environmental Science and Policy, The College of William and Mary