Plundering Paradise
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A01=John Cavanagh
A01=Robin Broad
Author_John Cavanagh
Author_Robin Broad
block logging trucks
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destruction of philippine countryside
disappearing natural resources
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fishers
gripping
halt plunder and improve lives
informative
inspiring
laborers
land of lush rainforests
ordinary men and women fighting back
peasants
philippines
portrait of environmental politics
protest open pit mining
replant trees
Product details
- ISBN 9780520089211
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This gripping portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. Traveling through a land of lush rainforests, the authors have recorded the experiences of the people whose livelihoods are disappearing along with their country's natural resources. The result is an inspiring, informative account of how peasants, fishers, and other laborers have united to halt the plunder and to improve their lives. These people do not debate global warming--they know that their very lives depend on the land and oceans, so they block logging trucks, protest open-pit mining, and replant trees. In a country where nearly two-thirds of the children are impoverished, the reclaiming of natural resources is offering young people hope for a future. Plundering Paradise is essential reading for anyone interested in development, the global environment, and political life in the Third World.
Robin Broad is Assistant Professor of International Development at American University and the author of Unequal Alliance: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines (California, 1988). John Cavanagh is Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-author, with Richard J. Barnet, of Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order (1994).
