Exxon and the Crandon Mine Controversy
Exxon and the Crandon Mine Controversy

Author: Michael O'Brien

Publisher: Badger Books Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 193254237X

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This is a true story of how groups of people organized to preserve the environment and defeated gigantic mining companies. Native Americans, sports people, environmental groups, lake and property owners and ordinary citizens prevented a copper and zinc mine that threatened the environment.

Public Participation in the Governance of International Freshwater Resources
Public Participation in the Governance of International Freshwater Resources

Author: Carl E. Bruch

Publisher: United Nations University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 9280811061

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Bruch, a senior attorney of the Environmental Law Institute, presents work from an April 2003 symposium co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute, the United Nations University, and other institutions. Papers from the symposium identify innovative approaches in watershed management and look at political, linguistic, legal, cultural, and geogr

Life and Death Matters
Life and Death Matters

Author: Barbara Rose Johnston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-03

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 131542536X

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The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens important pathways for further research. Authors reassess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within post-9/11 security and biosecurity frameworks, when global warming and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, when global power and politics are being realigned, and when ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies. This bold new edition of Life and Death Matters will be a widely used textbook and essential reading for students, scholars, and policy makers.

Unlikely Alliances
Unlikely Alliances

Author: Zoltán Grossman

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2017-06-20

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0295741538

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Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources. Yet, when both groups are faced with an outside threat to their common environment—such as mines, dams, or an oil pipeline—these communities have unexpectedly joined together to protect the resources. Some regions of the United States with the most intense conflicts were transformed into areas with the deepest cooperation between tribes and local farmers, ranchers, and fishers to defend sacred land and water. Unlikely Alliances explores this evolution from conflict to cooperation through place-based case studies in the Pacific Northwest, Great Basin, Northern Plains, and Great Lakes regions during the 1970s through the 2010s. These case studies suggest that a deep love of place can begin to overcome even the bitterest divides.