Green Guerrillas

, by Collinson, Helen

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Introduction	p. 1
Capitalism and ecological crisis: legacy of the 1980s	p. 8
Social pressure for environmental reform in Latin America	p. 20
Native peoples and sustainable development	p. 34
'The land of our ancestor's bones': Wichi people's struggle in the Argentine Chaco	p. 40
How sustainable were pre-Columbian civilizations?	p. 47
Debating 'Indigenous' agricultural development: Indian organizations in the Central Andes of Ecuador	p. 51
Oil, lawlessness and Indigenous struggles in Ecuador's Oriente	p. 61
Colombia's Pacific Plan: Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities challenge the developers	p. 74
Amazonian Indians and peasants: coping in the age of development	p. 84
Did Chico Mendes die in vain? Brazilian rubber tappers in the 1990s	p. 93
Fruit farming in the Brazilian Amazon: a sustainable alternative	p. 103
Pioneer women and the destruction of the rainforests	p. 108
Can ecotourism save Ecuador's threatened cloud forests?	p. 115
New harvests, old problems: The challenges facing Latin America's agro-export boom	p. 122
The price of a perfect flower: environmental destruction and health hazards in the Colombian flower industry	p. 132
David vs. Goliath: fishermen conflicts with mariculturalists in Honduras	p. 140
Confronting Haiti's environmental crisis: a tale of two visions	p. 149
The Greening of Cuba	p. 158
Puerto Rico's energy fix	p. 168
Green crime, green redemption: the environment and ecotourism in the Caribbean	p. 178
Where will all the garbage go? Tourism, politics, and the environment in Barbados	p. 187
Enlightened cities: the urban environment in Latin America	p. 196
San Salvador: The city versus the forest	p. 210
Colombia's independent recyclers' union: a model for urban waste management	p. 215
Santo Domingo: an alternative city plan	p. 221
Curitiba: towards sustainable urban development	p. 230
About the contributors	p. 240
Index	p. 243
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