Life and Death Matters

Barbara Rose Johnston is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Political Ecology and winner of the Lourdes Arizpe Award for her outstanding contributions in the application of anthropology to environmental issues and discourse. Some of her many important publications are Who Pays the Price?: The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis (1994); Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the Environment at the End of the Millennium (1997; 2nd ed forthcoming 2008); Disappearing Peoples: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia (2007); and The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report (forthcoming 2008). Holly M. Barker is the former senior advisor to the Republic of the Marshall Islands Ambassador to the United States, and now teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She is author of Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World (Wadsworth 2004).

• Chapter 1 Human Rights, Environmental Quality, and Social Justice, Barbara Rose Johnston; Part I Economic Development; Chapter 2 Distant Processes: The Global Economy and Outer Island Development in Indonesia, Lorraine V. Aragon; Chapter 3 Uncommon Property Rights in Southwest China, Lindsey Swope, Margaret Byrne Swain, Fuquan Yang, Jack D. Ives, Tilt Bryan; Chapter 4 Snapshot: China Ecocitis.doc—Huangbaiyu: Eco-Cities in the Chinese Countryside, Shannon May; Part II Biodiversity: Preserving What, for Whom?; Chapter 4a African Wildlife: Conservation and Conflict, Robert K. Hitchcock; Chapter 5 Nature, Development, and Culture in the Zambezi Valley, Bill Derman, Mike Makina, Mushumbi Pools, Lazarus Zhuwao, Basiyao Zimbabwe; Part III Mineral Wealth versus Biotic Health; Chapter 6 The Master Thief: Gold Mining and Mercury Contamination in the Amazon, Leslie E. Sponsel; Chapter 7 War on Subsistence: Mining Rights at Crandon/Mole Lake, Wisconsin, Al Gedicks; Part IV Agriculture and Agri-Conflict; Chapter 8 Purity and Danger: Regulating Organic Farming, Valerie Wheeler, Peter Esainko; Chapter 9 Resource Access, Environmental Struggles, and Human Rights in Honduras, James Phillips; Chapter 10 Snapshot: The Human Right to Eat: Agro-Profiteering and Predictable Food Scarcity, Joan P. Mencher; Part V Development, Degradation, and Conflict; Chapter 10a Mass Tourism on the Mexican Caribbean: Pervasive Changes, Profound Consequences, Oriol Pi-Sunyer, R. Brooke Thomas; Chapter 11 Mexico's Second Institutionalized Revolution: Origins and Impacts of the Chiapas Declarations, David Stea, Camilo Perez Bustillo, Betse Davies, Silvia Elguea; Part VI Postwar Matters; Chapter 12 Life and Death Matters in Eritrean Repatriation, Lucia Ann McSpadden; Chapter 13 Environmental Justice, Health, and Safety in Urban South Africa: Alexandra Township Revisited, Ben Wisner; Chapter 14 Health, Human Rights, and War: Structural Violence, Armed Conflict, and Human Health in the Andes, Tom Leatherman; Chapter 15 Snapshot: War and Political Violence Are Destructive to Life and Health, Ellen Gruenbaum; Chapter 16 Snapshot: Considering the Human Health Consequences of War in Iraq, Marcia C. Inhorn; Part VII Problems That Push the Parameters of Time and Space; Chapter 15a Radiation Communities: Fighting for Justice for the Marshall Islands, Holly M. Barker; Chapter 16a Complex Problems and No Clear Solutions: Radiation Victimization in Russia, Paula Garb; Chapter 17 Snapshot: Building a Clean, Green Nuclear Machine?, Barbara Rose Johnston; Chapter 17a Climate Change, Culture Change, and Human Rights in Northeastern Siberia, Susan A. Crate; Chapter 18 Snapshot: Climate Change and the Small Island Experience, Holly M. Barker; Chapter 19 Snapshot: Beset by Offsets: Carbon Offset Chains and Human Rights Abuses, Melissa Checker; Chapter 18a Water and Human Rights, Barbara Rose Johnston; Chapter 20 Snapshot: From Ecological Disaster to Constitutional Crisis: Dams on Brazil's Xingu River, Terence Turner; Chapter 21 Snapshot: Dam Legacies: Guatemala's Chixoy Dam-Affected Communities, Barbara Rose Johnston;