Environmental Justice in Latin America : Problems, Promise, and Practice.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Popular Environmentalism and Social Justice in Latin America -- I Environmental Justice in Latin America? Global and Conceptual Challenges -- 1 Tracing Race: Mapping Environmental Formations in Environmental Justice Research in Latin America -- 2 Contesting Trade Politics in the Americas: The Politics of Environmental Justice -- 3 Grassroots Reframing of Environmental Struggles in Brazil -- II Industrial Development and Environmental Justice -- 4 Environmental Conflicts and Environmental Justice in Argentina -- 5 Waste Practices and Politics: The Case of Oaxaca, Mexico -- 6 Where Local Meets Global: Environmental Justice on the US-Mexico Border -- 7 Environmental Justice in Mexico: The Peñoles Case -- III Land, Resources, and Environmental Justice -- 8 Ecotourism, Park Systems, and Environmental Justice in Latin America -- 9 Environmental Justice and Agricultural Development in the Brazilian Cerrado -- 10 Popular Protest and Unpopular Policies: State Restructuring, Resource Conflict, and Social Justice in Bolivia -- 11 The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Vieques, Puerto Rico -- 12 Cultural Politics and the Essence of Life: Who Controls the Water? -- About the Contributors -- Urban and Industrial Environments -- Index.

Scholars and activists investigate the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that illustrate the connections between popular environmental mobilization and social justice in the region.

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