Environmental problems, such as polluted air, water and soil become human environmental crises when biophysical conditions significantly threaten human health, society or way of life. Human environmental crises emerge as a result of culture and structure of power and physical implications of political economics. Political, physical and conceptual mechanisms along with inherent contradictions and conflicts of interest that accompany their use contribute towards dysfunctional governance and exploitation of resources and abuse of human rights.
About Author :
R.K. Tiwari, M.Sc., is an energetic Professor in Modi College, Kolkata,and is engaged in teaching postgraduate classes. He is an advisory member of Kolkata University. There are several books to his credit. He has specialisation in writing books on uplift of womenfolk in rural setor, development of scheduled tribes in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. He has written many books on rural development. He is a member of Socio-politial System and also a visiting professor in several seminars on Human Rights.
Contents :
Preface
List and Death Issues at the End of Millennium
Economic Development: Global Forces/Local Responses
Distant Processes: The Global Economy and Outer Island Development in Indonesia
Rights in South-west China: Trees and Tourists
Biodiversity: Preserving What, for Whom?
Nature, Development, and Culture in the Zambezi Valley
African Wildlife: Conservation and Conflict
Mineral Wealth vs. Biotic Health
The Master Thief: Gold Mining and Mercury Contamination in the Amazon
War on Subsistence: Meaning Rights at Crandon/Mole Lake, Wisconsin
Agriculture and Agri-Conflict
Purity and Danger: Regulating Organic-farming
Conservation and Social Development
Ecotourism and Rural Reconstruction
Local Development and Parks in France
Index
