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Book SynopsisThe natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar mining, oil and gas, and timber operations. Modern demands for commodities have given rise to new development schemes, including hydroelectric dams, open cast mines, and industrial agricultural operations. The history of human habitation in this region is intimately tied to its rich biodiversity, and the Amazon basin is home to scores of indigenous groups, many of whom have populations so small that their cultural and physical survival is endangered. Landscapes of Inequity explores the debate over rights to and use of resources and addresses fundamental questions that inform the debate in the western Amazon basin, from the Andes Mountains to the tropical lowlands. Beginning with an examination of the divergent conceptual interpretations of environmental justice, the volume explores the issue from two interlocking perspectives: of indigenous p
Trade Review“Environmental injustice most often plays out of sight and mind.
Landscapes of Inequity’s brilliant analysis helps ensure this can never happen again. A must-read.”—Thomas E. Lovejoy, University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University
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Landscapes of Inequity provides a sensitive and nuanced road map of the last thirty years of efforts to introduce new models of development in Amazonia and is an unusually coherent collection for understanding the good the bad and the ugly in the transformation of the Latin American tropics.”—Susanna B. Hecht, professor at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles
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Introduction
Barbara J. Fraser and Nicholas A. Robins
Part 1. Extracting Resources, Imposing Inequity 1. A Toxic Reckoning: Legacy Contamination in Huancavelica, Peru
Nicholas A. Robins
2. When the Rivers Run Black: Oil and Inequity in the Western Amazon
Barbara J. Fraser
Part 2. Macro-Development and Marginalization 3. Environmental Justice and Brazil’s Amazonian Dams
Philip M. Fearnside
4. When Plurinational States Undermine Indigenous Territories: TIPNIS in Bolivia
Carwil Bjork-James
5. Environmental Justice in the REDD+ Frontier: Experiences from the Amazon and Beyond
Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti and Anne M. Larson
Part 3. Territorial Rights, Ecocosmology, and the Quest for Environmental Justice 6. Indigenism, Isolation, and Socioenvironmental Conflicts in the Javari River Valley
Barbara Arisi and Felipe Milanez
7. We Are Here: The State of Community-Based Landscapes in Peru
Richard Chase Smith
8. In Search of Justice and Power: Contentious Experiences of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Latin America
Roger Merino
9. Indigenous Amazonian Peoples and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Lowland South America
Jonathan D. Hill
Epilogue: Is Environmental Justice in the Andes-Amazon Region Illusive, Elusive, or within Reach?
Barbara J. Fraser and Nicholas A. Robins
Contributors
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