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Title: Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America by J. Timmons Roberts, Nikki Demetria Thanos, David Helvarg ISBN: 0-415-92980-6 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly recommended!
Comment: (From Planeta Journal) -- A must read for anyone interested in environmental issues and must read for anyone interested in Latin America, Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America (Routledge, 2003) combines academic research with a regional travelogue.
Written by J. Timmons Roberts and Nikki Demetria Thanos, this book reviews the critical issues run the gamut from green to gray.
Chapters review pollution havens on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, the hazards of an urban sprawl and the rise of protests particularly via the Internet. This is no surprise as co-author J. Timmons Roberts is a co-founder of the Environment and Latin America Network (ELAN).
Excerpts from Trouble in Paradise
To become sustainable, Latin America needs real democracy to create the leverage for its citizens to demand a cleaner environment and the services they need to survive. (p. 4)
Contact informs strategic advocacy work on one or both sides of the North-South divide. Lives can be changed. The same can be said of academic programs in the region and of linkages between universities and other schools ... Rather than merely observing these issues from afar and wringing our hands, we need to be engaged. Institutions can be changed. (pp. 205-206)
Study and travel in Latin America and connections between communities and universities across the North-South divide can create lasting bonds and new directions of change. And we need to call for a drastic rethinking of priorities in international aid and finance. Aid needs to support solutions which address social and environmental problems at the same time. (pp. 210-211)
Rating: 5
Summary: Readable, comprehensive, and thought-provoking analysis
Comment: This is the book we have all been waiting for: a definitive analysis on the state of the environment in Latin America, how it got that way, and --- best of all-- what is and can be done to remedy the crises. Trouble in Paradise offers the coherence, comprehensiveness,and depth sorely lacking in environmental studies about Latin America. Informed by long-term academic as well as political engagement with these issues, Roberts and Thanos make a varied set of long-term environmetal crises and struggles surrounding them come to life for both students and specialists. They trace how common political, economic and social features structure these case studies and thus bring Latin America's environment to the forefront of discussions about globalization.
Its readability, price, length (200 pages of reading) and content make this volume excellent for both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. It will get students excited about both Latin America as well as environmental struggles and the inequalities that surround them. The case studies they cover are great jumping off points for imporant related issues such as free trade, inequality, ethnicity, social movements, urbanization and local politics. I will be using it at my desk and in the classroom for years to come!
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Title: Just Sustainabilities : Development in an Unequal World by Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard, Bob Evans ISBN: 0262511312 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition (JAGUAR BOOKS ON LATIN AMERICA) by Susan E. Place ISBN: 0842029087 Publisher: Scholarly Resources Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Savages by Joe Kane ISBN: 0679740198 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz ISBN: 0393324397 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil by Angus Lindsay Wright, Wendy Wolford ISBN: 0935028900 Publisher: Food First Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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