Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice
Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice
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Abstract
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. This book 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, it 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 at 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 promise as a way to understand and address environmental inequities in Latin America and elsewhere.
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Front Matter
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Environmental Justice in Latin America
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I Environmental Justice in Latin America? Global and Conceptual Challenges
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II Industrial Development and Environmental Justice
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Environmental Conflicts and Environmental Justice in Argentina
Carlos Reboratti
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Waste Practices and Politics: The Case of Oaxaca, Mexico
Sarah A. Moore
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Where Local Meets Global: Environmental Justice on the US-Mexico Border
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Environmental Justice in Mexico: The Peñoles Case
Jordi Díez andReyes Rodríguez
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Environmental Conflicts and Environmental Justice in Argentina
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III Land, Resources, and Environmental Justice
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Ecotourism, Park Systems, and Environmental Justice in Latin America
Michele Zebich-Knos
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Environmental Justice and Agricultural Development in the Brazilian Cerrado
Wendy Wolford
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Popular Protest and Unpopular Policies: State Restructuring, Resource Conflict, and Social Justice in Bolivia
Tom Perreault
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The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Katherine T. McCaffrey
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Cultural Politics and the Essence of Life: Who Controls the Water?
Stefanie Wickstrom
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Ecotourism, Park Systems, and Environmental Justice in Latin America
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