Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America

by Nikki Demetria Thanos, J. Timm Roberts, J. Timmons Roberts

Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a single night in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia in 1985, and grew shrill when rubbertapper Chico Mendes was shot in 1988 trying to stop ranchers from clearing rainforests near his home in Acre. Since the early 80s, we've heard pleas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415929792
• ISBN13: 9780415929790
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"