Indigenous peoples and environmental issues : an encyclopedia

Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott) 1950- (Author).

Summary: From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the industrialized worldʼs encroachment on native lands has brought disastrous environmental harm to indigenous peoples. More than 170 native peoples around the world are facing life-and-death struggles to maintain environments threatened by oil spills, explosions, toxic chemicals, global warming and other pollutants. This unique resource surveys those indigenous peoples and the environmental hazards that threaten their existence, providing a wealth of information not readily available elsewhere. Arranged geographically, each entry focuses on the peoples of a particular country and the environmental issues they face, from the global warming and toxic chemicals threatening the Artic Inuits, to the logging that is devastating indigenous habitats in Borneo.

Record details

ISBN: 0313323984 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780313323980 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xlii, 506 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-495) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Argentina -- Australian Aborigines -- Bangladesh -- Belize -- Biodiversity and indigenous environmentalism -- Bolivia -- Botswana -- Brazil -- Burma (Myanmar) -- Cambodia -- Cameroon -- Canada -- Chad -- Chile -- Climate change and indigenous environmentalism -- Colombia -- Congo basin -- Congo Republic -- Costa Rica -- Dam sites and indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Eritrea -- Fiji -- Forest stewardship council -- French Polynesia -- Ghana -- Guatemala -- Guyana -- The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) environmental worldview: different trees in a different forest / Robert W. Venables -- Honduras -- India -- Indigenous environmentalism and economic development -- Indonesia -- Iraq -- Irian Jaya/Papua New Guinea -- Kenya -- Malaysia (Sarawak) -- Marianas Islands -- Marshall Islands -- Mexico -- Mother earth, as ecological metaphor -- Native American conceptions of ecology -- New Zealand -- Nicaragua -- Nigeria -- Noble savage, the "ecological Indian" -- Pakistan -- Panama -- Peru -- Philippines -- Russia (Serbia) -- The South Pacific -- Sri Lanka -- Suriname -- Thailand -- Thanksgiving ceremonial cycles of Native Americans: ecological perspectives -- Tibet -- Turkey -- United States of America -- Venezuela -- Yemen -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe and Botswana: an alliance for wildlife.