Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America - Couverture rigide

 
9780815353720: Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America
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ISBN 10 : 0815353723 ISBN 13 : 9780815353720
Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This book focuses on the issues of global environmental injustice and human rights violations and explores the scope and limits of the potential of human rights to influence environmental justice. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective on contemporary development discussions, analysing some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental and human rights practices in Latin America. The contributors examine how the extraction and exploitation of natural resources and the further commodification of nature have affected local communities in the region and how these policies have impacted on the promotion and protection of human rights as communities struggle to defend their rights and territories. The book analyses the emergence of transnational activism in the context of collective action organised around socio-environmental conflicts, the infringement of basic human rights and the emergence of alternative and sometimes conflicting development models. Furthermore, it critically discusses why governments are often willing to override their commitments to sustainability and human rights to promote their development agenda.

The chapters originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of Human Rights.

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À propos de l?auteur

Malayna Raftopoulos is an assistant professor in Latin American studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is also the co-editor of Provincialising nature: Multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of nature in Latin America (ILAS, University of London Press).

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0815353723
ISBN 13 
9780815353720
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
136
Éditeur
Raftopoulos Malayna
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  036789310X ISBN 13 :  9780367893101
Editeur : Routledge, 2019
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