Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological RestorationJames K. Boyce, Sunita Narain, Elizabeth A. Stanton "In Reclaiming Nature, leading environmental thinkers from across the globe explore the relationship between the natural world and human activities. The authors draw inspiration and lessons from diverse experiences, from community-based fishery and forestry management to innovative strategies for combating global warming. They advance a compelling new vision of environmentalism, founded on the link between the struggle to reclaim nature and the struggle for social justice. This book advances three core propositions: first, humans can and do have positive as well as negative effects on the natural environment. By restoring degraded, ecosystems and engaging in co-evolutionary processes, people can add value to nature's wealth. Second, every person has an inalienable right to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment. These are not privileges to be awarded on the basis of political power, nor commodities to be allocated on the basis of purchasing power - they are fundamental human rights. Third, low-income communities are not the root of the problem. Rather they are the heart of the solution. In cities and the countryside across the world, ordinary people are forging a vibrant new environmentalism that is founded on defense of their lives and livelihoods. Reclaiming Nature is a bold and comprehensive text of major interest to both students of the environment and professionals involved in policy making."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE. |
Contents
SmallScale Fisheries | 23 |
Natural Resource Management and Poverty Alleviation | 55 |
Fighting Ecological Poverty through | 89 |
The Ecological Restoration of Inland Fisheries | 111 |
1 Map of Bangladesh | 113 |
Land Reform and Sustainable Development | 127 |
Building Natural Assets in the Brazilian | 151 |
1 Map of BrazilAmazonia | 153 |
Limits and Potentials | 289 |
1 Linear View of Materials Flow | 292 |
4 Picking through the Waste Stream | 298 |
Zimbabwes | 313 |
Building the Natural | 327 |
1 Environmental Inequalities among Countries of | 329 |
Reflections from the United States | 351 |
1 Distribution of Estimated Lifetime Cancer Risk | 361 |
Poverty amidst Wealth | 181 |
Natural Assets and Participatory Forest Management in West | 203 |
1 Ecological Zones in West Africa | 205 |
Compensation for Environmental Services and Rural | 237 |
Certification Systems as Tools for Natural Asset Building | 259 |
1 Logo of the Forest Stewardship Council | 266 |
2 Certified Fair Trade Seal | 273 |
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