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The violence of development : resource depletion, environmental crises and human rights abuses in Central America
- Title
- The violence of development : resource depletion, environmental crises and human rights abuses in Central America / Martin Mowforth.
- Author
- Mowforth, Martin
- Publication
- London : Pluto Press, 2014.
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Examines the failure of development in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of funding and positive indicators of economic growth, poverty remains entrenched and violence endemic.
- Subject
- Sustainable development > Central America
- Economic history
- Economic policy
- Sustainable development
- Entwicklungspolitik
- Ländliche Entwicklung
- Sozialverträglichkeit
- Umweltschaden
- Menschenrechtsverletzung
- Strukturelle Gewalt
- Central America > Economic policy
- Central America > Economic conditions
- Central America
- Mittelamerika
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Food : for whose table? -- Water : flowing in the wrong direction -- Energy : powerful forces -- Mining : all that glitters ... -- Deforestation and reforestation : can't see the wood for the trees -- Industrialisation and free trade treaties : from slavery to sweatshop -- Indigenous groups : the fourth world fights back -- The violence of development : human rights defenders against the wall -- Whither development?
- Call Number
- JFE 16-1133
- ISBN
- 9780745333939
- 0745333931
- 9780745333946
- 074533394X
- 9781783710355 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781783710379 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781783710362 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 864501785
- Author
- Mowforth, Martin, author.
- Title
- The violence of development : resource depletion, environmental crises and human rights abuses in Central America / Martin Mowforth.
- Publisher
- London : Pluto Press, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-1133