Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues: An Encyclopedia

by Bruce Elliott Johansen

From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the industrialized world's encroachment on native lands has brought disastrous environmental harm to indigenous peoples. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313323984
• ISBN13: 9780313323980
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.2" x 10.3"