Anthem Press
Reclaiming nature; environmental justice and ecological restoration.
In these 16 essays, contributors keep in mind that humans have positive as well as negative impact on nature, every human has an inalienable right to clean air and water and to a healthy environment, and low-income communities are not the root of environmental problems but the solution. They examine small-scale fisheries, community property rights, coastal natural assets, natural resource management and poverty alleviation, participatory democracy, land reform, mining rights and community rights, compensation for environmental services, certification systems, wastes as assets, international and US environmental justice, equitable carbon revenue distribution, and an entitlement framework for managing the global atmospheric commons. Includes case studies from projects in Bangladesh, the Brazilian Amazon, West Africa, and Zimbabwe. Distributed by Books International, Inc. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
