Green Guerrillas

Enlightening and highly disturbing insight into a host of environmental issues and conflicts in Latin America and the Carribbean.

Introduction

1

(6)

HELEN COLLINSON

1 THE CRISIS AND THE MOVEMENT: CONTINENTAL PERSPECTIVES

7

(26)

Capitalism and ecological crisis: legacy of the 1980s

8

(12)

ELIZABETH DORE

Social pressure for environmental reform in Latin America

20

(13)

DAVID KAIMOWITZ

INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS

33

(50)

Native peoples and sustainable development

34

(6)

AL GEDICKS

The land of our ancestor's bones: Wichi people's struggle in the Argentine Chaco

40

(7)

AIDAN RANKIN

How sustainable were pre-Columbian civilizations?

47

(4)

ELIZABETH DORE

Debating `indigenous' agricultural development: Indian organizations in the Central Andes of Ecuador

51

(10)

ANTHONY BEBBINGTON

Oil, lawlessness and Indigenous struggles in Ecuador's Oriente

61

(13)

JUDITH KIMERLING

Colombia's Pacific Plan: Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities challenge the developers

74

(9)

LUCY ALEXANDER

3 FIGHT FOR THE FOREST

83

(38)

Amazonian Indians and peasants: coping in the age of development

84

(9)

STEPHEN NUGENT

Did Chico Mendes die in vain? Brazilian rubber tappers in the 1990s

93

(10)

ANTHONY HALL

Fruit farming in the Brazilian Amazon: a sustainable alternative

103

(5)

CATHERINE MATHESON

Pioneer women and the destruction of the rainforests

108

(7)

JANET TOWNSEND

Can ecotourism save Ecuador's threatened cloud forests?

115

(6)

JAMES FAIR

4 MODERNIZATION: ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS AND POPULAR RESPONSES

121

(74)

New harvests, old problems: The challenges facing Latin America's agro-export boom

122

(10)

LORI ANN THRUPP

The price of a perfect flower: environmental destruction and health hazards in the Colombian flower industry

132

(8)

SARAH STEWART

David vs. Goliath: fishermen conflicts with mariculturalists in Honduras

140

(9)

DENISE STANLEY

Confronting Haiti's environmental crisis: a tale of two visions

149

(9)

CHARLES ARTHUR

The Greening of Cuba

158

(10)

PETER ROSSET

Puerto Rico's energy fix

168

(10)

MARIANNE MEYN

Green crime, green redemption: the environment and ecotourism in the Caribbean

178

(9)

POLLY PATTULLO

Where will all the garbage go? Tourism, politics, and the environment in Barbados

187

(8)

HILARY McD BECKLES

5 URBAN ECOWARRIORS: ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS AND INITIATIVES IN LATIN AMERICAN CITIES

195

(45)

Enlightened cities: the urban environment in Latin America

196

(14)

JULIO DAVILA

San Salvador: The city versus the forest

210

(5)

NICK CAISTOR

Colombia's independent recyclers' union: a model for urban waste management

215

(6)

MARGARITA PACHECO

Santo Domingo: an alternative city plan

221

(9)

JORGE CELA

Curitiba: towards sustainable urban development

230

(10)

JONAS RABINOVITCH

About the contributors

240

(3)

Index

243

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