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Life and death matters : human rights and the environment at the end of the millenium.
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ISBN: 0761991859 0761991840 Year: 1997 Publisher: Walnut Creek AltaMira


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Water, cultural diversity, and global environmental change : emerging trends, sustainable futures?
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ISBN: 9400717733 9786613453167 1283453169 9400717741 Year: 2012 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,

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A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples.  It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity and cultural diversity. The core concepts utilized in this book draw upon a larger trend in sustainability science, a recognition of the synergism and analytical potential in utilizing a coupled biological and social systems analysis, as the functioning viability of nature is both sustained and threatened by humans. .

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Water-supply. --- Water-supply --- Water conservation --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental Engineering --- Ecology --- Social aspects --- Water use --- Global environmental change. --- Social aspects. --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Use of water --- Utilization of water --- Water --- Water utilization --- Utilization --- Environment. --- Environmental management. --- Biodiversity. --- Aquatic ecology. --- Sustainable development. --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Sustainable Development. --- Environment, general. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Change --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- Marine Sciences. --- Environmental sciences. --- Aquatic biology. --- Hydrobiology --- Water biology --- Aquatic sciences --- Biology --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Environmental science --- Science --- Ocean sciences --- Environmental aspects --- Aquatic ecology . --- Aquatic biology --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Fresh waters --- Freshwater --- Freshwaters --- Inland water --- Inland waters --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology

Waging war, making peace : reparations and human rights.
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ISBN: 9781598743432 9781598743449 Year: 2009 Publisher: Walnut Creek Left Coast Press

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Disappearing peoples? : indigenous groups and ethnic minorities in South and Central Asia
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ISBN: 9781598741209 9781598741216 Year: 2007 Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast,

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Water, culture and power : local struggles in a global context
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ISBN: 1559635223 1559635215 9781559635226 9781559635219 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : Island press,

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The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War : The Rongelap Report
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ISBN: 1315431793 Year: 2010 Publisher: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press,

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The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a 1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethic

Water, culture, and power
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ISBN: 1610913469 9781610913461 1559635223 9781559635226 1559635215 9781559635219 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Island Press

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According to some estimates, at least 1.7 billion people do not have an adequate supply of drinking water and as many as 40% of the world's population face chronic shortages. Yet water scarcity is more than a matter of terrain, increased population, and climate. It can also be a byproduct or end result of water management, where the building of dams, canals, and complicated delivery systems provide water for some at the cost of others, and result in short-term gains that wreak long-term ecological havoc. Water scarcity can also be a product of the social systems in which we live. Water, Culture, and Power presents a series of case studies from around the world that examine the complex culture and power dimensions of water resources and water resource management. Chapters describe highly contested and contentious cases that span the continuum of water management concerns from dam construction and hydroelectric power generation to water quality and potable water systems. Sections examine: impact of water resource development on indigenous peoples varied cultural meanings of water and water resources political process of funding and building water resource projects tensions between culture and power as they structure perceptions and experiences of water scarcity, transforming water from natural resource to social constructio. Case studies include Lummi nation challenges to water rights in the northwest United States; drinking water quality issues in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico; the effects of tourism development in the Bay Islands, Honduras; water scarcity on St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands; the role of water in the Arab-Israeli conflict; and other national and regional situations including those from Zimbabwe, Japan, and Bangladesh. While places and cases vary, all chapters address the values and meanings associated with water and how changes in power result in changes in both meaning and in patterns of use, access, and control. Water, Culture, and Power provides an important look at water conflicts and crises and is essential reading for students, researchers, and anyone interested in the role of cultural factors as they affect the political economy of natural resource use and control.
Disappearing peoples?
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ISBN: 1315430398 1315430401 131543041X 1598747266 9781598747263 9781315430409 9781315430416 9781315430393 1598741209 9781598741209 1598741209 9781598741209 1598741217 9781598741216 131543038X Year: 2007 Publisher: Walnut Creek, CA Left Coast Press

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South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of change including environmental degradation, population growth, land loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is endangered. Some are ""indigenous"" peoples, some are not; each group represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and thrive o


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The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War
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ISBN: 9781598747416 159874741X 1598743457 9781598743456 1598743465 9781598743463 9781315431802 1315431807 Year: 2008 Publisher: Walnut Creek Left Coast Press

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