Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines - Hardcover

Broad, Robin; Cavanagh, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520080815 ISBN 13: 9780520080812

Verlag: University of California Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Broad Robin Cavanagh John

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Reseña del editor:

This portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. Travelling through a land of lush rainforests, the authors have recorded the experiences of the people whose livelihoods are disappearing along with their country's natural resources. The result is an inspiring account of how peasants, fishermen and other labourers have united to halt the plunder and to improve their lives. These people do not debate global warming - they know that their very lives depend on the land and oceans - so they block logging trucks, protest open-pit mining and replant trees. In a country where nearly two-thirds of the children are impoverished, the reclaiming of natural resources is offering young people hope for a future.

Biografía del autor:

Robin Broad is Assistant Professor of International Development at American University and the author of Unequal Alliance: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines (California, 1988). John Cavanagh is Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-author, with Richard J. Barnet, of Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order (1994).

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520080815
• ISBN 13: 9780520080812
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240