Environmental Impacts of Transnational Corporations in the Global South

Paul Cooney is Professor, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS), Buenos Aires, Argentina. William Sacher Freslon is Professor, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador. He also works in the Programa de Cambio Climático (Climate Change Program, Ecuador.

• Introduction; Paul Cooney & William Sacher Freslon          PART I: EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES, SOCIAL CONFLICT AND DISPOSSESSION IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH1. Transnational Mining Capital and Accumulation by Dispossession; William Sacher Freslon & Paul Cooney 2. Mining Giants, Indigenous Peoples and Art: Challenging settler colonialism in northern Australia through story painting; Seán Kerins & Kirrily Jordan3. Ecological-Economic Narratives for Resisting Extractive Industries in Africa; Patrick Bond  4. Petroleum Accidents in the Global South; Franklin Obeng-OdoomPART II: ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS AND TRANSNATIONAL VALUE CHAINS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 5. Transnational Corporations, Violence and Suffering: The environmental, public health and social impacts from comparative case studies in Zimbabwe and Uganda; Fernanda Claudio and Kristen Lyons6. Environmental Injustice in Northeast Brazil: The Pecém industrial and shipping complex; Antônio Jeovah de Andrade Meireles, João Alfredo Telles Melo & Magnólia Azevedo Said7. Family Farming, the Environment and the Global Food Chain; Sérgio Pedro

Economists address environmental impacts of transnational corporations, focusing on the global South under neoliberal globalization. They begin with extractive industries, social conflict, and dispossession in the global South. Among those topics are mining giants, indigenous people, and art: challenging settler colonialism in northern Australia through story painting; and ecological-economic narratives for resisting extractive industries in Africa. Turning then to environmental conflicts and transnational value chains in the global South, they consider such topics as environmental injustice in northeast Brazil: the Pecém industrial and shipping complex; and family farming, the environment, and the global food chain.