Dam The Rivers Damn The People

Author : Barbara J. Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113404433X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dam the Rivers, Damn the People written by Barbara J. Cummings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the name of development, the powerful are colonizing the forest. The greatest new threat comes from the massive hydro-electric schemes which are being pushed ahead with little regard to efficacy, the rights of the people, or the survival of the forest. Dam the Rivers, Damn the People is about two of the most affected areas, Balbina in Amazonas and the Xingu River in Para. Barbara Cummings describes the plans which the state attempted to keep secret, the extent to which these projects will destroy the forest, the consequent dispossession of the people of the forest and, above all, their growing resistance. She shows how the outcome of their fight affects us all. Originally published in 1990

Author : Barbara J. Cummings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134044267
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dam the Rivers, Damn the People written by Barbara J. Cummings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the name of development, the powerful are colonizing the forest. The greatest new threat comes from the massive hydro-electric schemes which are being pushed ahead with little regard to efficacy, the rights of the people, or the survival of the forest. Dam the Rivers, Damn the People is about two of the most affected areas, Balbina in Amazonas and the Xingu River in Para. Barbara Cummings describes the plans which the state attempted to keep secret, the extent to which these projects will destroy the forest, the consequent dispossession of the people of the forest and, above all, their growing resistance. She shows how the outcome of their fight affects us all. Originally published in 1990

Author : David Humphreys
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 9781853833786
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forest Politics written by David Humphreys and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : C J Barrow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317896335
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing The Environment written by C J Barrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive overview of global environmental problems - past, present and future - examining their roots and implications and suggesting, where possible, ways in which they might be mitigated or avoided by careful management.

Author : Michael Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139459163
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection written by Michael Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and commitments to other people and to practices, projects, principles, and places, which provide them with desire-independent reasons for action, and that they are reflective creatures who think about what they are and what they should be, with ideals that can shape and structure the way they see their choices. The author's views are brought to bear on the economic way of thinking about the natural environment and on how and when the norm of fair reciprocity motivates us to do our part in cooperative endeavors. Throughout, the argument is adorned by thought-provoking examples that keep what is at stake clearly before the reader's mind.

Author : Allen F. Isaacman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444506
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development written by Allen F. Isaacman and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Engineers and hydrologists praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills required to construct what was then the world’s fifth-largest mega-dam. Portuguese colonial officials cited benefits they expected from the dam—from expansion of irrigated farming and European settlement, to improved transportation throughout the Zambezi River Valley, to reduced flooding in this area of unpredictable rainfall. “The project, however, actually resulted in cascading layers of human displacement, violence, and environmental destruction. Its electricity benefited few Mozambicans, even after the former guerrillas of FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) came to power; instead, it fed industrialization in apartheid South Africa.” (Richard Roberts) This in-depth study of the region examines the dominant developmentalist narrative that has surrounded the dam, chronicles the continual violence that has accompanied its existence, and gives voice to previously unheard narratives of forced labor, displacement, and historical and contemporary life in the dam’s shadow.

Author : BJ Cummings
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295747447
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The River That Made Seattle written by BJ Cummings and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se’alth and his allies fished and lived in villages here and white settlers established their first settlements nearby. Industrialists later straightened the river’s natural turns and built factories on its banks, floating in raw materials and shipping out airplane parts, cement, and steel. Unfortunately, the very utility of the river has been its undoing, as decades of dumping led to the river being declared a Superfund cleanup site. Using previously unpublished accounts by Indigenous people and settlers, BJ Cummings’s compelling narrative restores the Duwamish River to its central place in Seattle and Pacific Northwest history. Writing from the perspective of environmental justice—and herself a key figure in river restoration efforts—Cummings vividly portrays the people and conflicts that shaped the region’s culture and natural environment. She conducted research with members of the Duwamish Tribe, with whom she has long worked as an advocate. Cummings shares the river’s story as a call for action in aligning decisions about the river and its future with values of collaboration, respect, and justice.

Author : Daniela Baratieri
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039118021
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories and Silences Haunted by Fascism written by Daniela Baratieri and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascist and colonial legacies have been determinant in shaping how Italian colonialism has been narrated in Italy till the late 1960s. This book deals with the complex problem of public memory and discursive amnesia. The detailed research that underpins this book makes it no longer possible to claim that after 1945 there was an absolute and traumatic silence concerning Italy's colonial occupation of North and East Africa. However, the abiding public use of this history confirms the existence of an extremely selective and codified memory of that past. The author shows that colonial discourse persisted in historiography, newspapers, newsreels and film. Popular culture appears intertwined with political and economic interests and the power inscribed in elite and scientific knowledge. While readdressing the often mistaken historical time line that ignores that actual Italian colonial ties did not end with the fall of Fascism, but in 1960 with Somalia becoming independent, this book suggests that a new post Fascist Italian identity was the crucial issue in reappraisals of a national colonial past.

Author : Nick Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1444145290
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues, Fourth Edition written by Nick Middleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he Global Casino is a compelling introduction to environmental issues which links the physical environment to its political, social and economic contexts. Case studies from around the globe are used to illustrate key environmental issues, from global warming and deforestation to natural hazards and soil erosion. The book highlights the underlying causes behind environmental problems, including human actions and emphasises the potential for solutions. In line with contemporary international trends, emphasis is placed on the critical concept of sustainable development. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with the introduction of new illustrative material and up-to-the-minute case studies on topics such as endangered deep-sea species, the global uptake of unleaded petrol, geothermal energy in Iceland, genocide in Rwanda and the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Particularly useful features for students include points for discussion at the end of each chapter as well as a comprehensive glossary. The lists of key readings and websites, again linked specifically to the content of each chapter, have been fully updated and expanded. The Global Casino is the essential course companion for students of the environment, geography, earth sciences and development studies.

Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 9781843690825
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evictions - 7010iied written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: