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Indigenous peoples and environmental issues : an encyclopedia / Bruce E. Johansen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003Description: xlii, 506 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0313323984
  • 9780313323980
Other title:
  • Indigenous peoples and environmental issues : An encyclopaedia
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2 21
LOC classification:
  • GF50 .J65 2003
Contents:
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.
Review: "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 Arctic Inuits, to the logging that is devastating indigenous habitats in Borneo. General entries overview such topics as climatic change, dam sites, and Native American concepts of ecology. The 'Guide to Related Topics' and index provide access to recurring themes such as deforestation, hydroelectric power, mining, and land tenure."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-495) and index.

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.

"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 Arctic Inuits, to the logging that is devastating indigenous habitats in Borneo. General entries overview such topics as climatic change, dam sites, and Native American concepts of ecology. The 'Guide to Related Topics' and index provide access to recurring themes such as deforestation, hydroelectric power, mining, and land tenure."--BOOK JACKET.

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