Toxic dispossession and environmental violence in Latin America

Devastating Environmental Impacts of Activities on Ancestral Lands ...

Representatives of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) ...

Toxic Takeaways - Global Witness

They documented a catalogue of egregious violations of Paraguay's environmental law: large soy extensions bordering family farms with no buffer ...

THE RISE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME - Interpol

Figure 10: Illegal trafficking routes of hazardous waste. Page 63. 63. South and ... “Organized Crime and Illegally Mined Gold in Latin America “. 176. “Islamic ...

Challenges for environmental and indigenous peoples' rights in the ...

... Colombia (FARC) and the growing violence ... environmental sustainability and climate change in Latin. America, including projects in the Amazon.

Resource Extraction and Conflict in Latin America

ine the political and environmental violence of oil and energy extraction. ... “accumulation by dispossession” (Harvey 2009), “the environment as ...

The Varieties of Environmental Violence

Large-scale environmental violence in recent years (deadly floods in India, Australia, and Pakistan; catastrophic hurricanes across the Eastern ...

Gender-based violence and environment linkages - IUCN Portal

In Latin America, it is estimated that the cost of violence ... The Escazú Agreement: An Environmental Milestone for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Extractivism and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Extractivism causes environmental pollution, damage to health, violence, land misappropriation and the forced expulsion of the affected ...

La Via Campesina participates and gives inputs to the first in-person ...

Climate and Environmental Justice · Migrants and Waged Workers ... Latin America, which has had impact on the implementation of UNDROP.

In the “Fissures of Infrastructure” - Duke University Press

“Weak Seed and a Poisoned Land: Slow Violence and the Toxic Infrastructures of War in South Lebanon.” Environmental Humanities 10, no. 1 (2018): 86–106 ...

THE KOTA KINABALU STATEMENT ON PALM OIL AND FREEDOM ...

We, Indigenous Peoples and Non-Governmental Organisations from palm oil-producing countries in Latin America, Africa and South East Asia demand the right to ...

Framing extractive violence as environmental (in)justice - DiVA Portal

environmental pollution, in addition to dispossession of traditional ... In: Beyond development: alternative visions from Latin America, p.

Mining and social conflict in Latin America: Which factors drive ...

In 2019, more than four activists were on average killed every week worldwide defending territories against the invasion of industries like ...

The 100 best books of the 21st century - The Guardian

Jemisin became the first African American author to win the best novel category at the Hugo awards for her first book in the Broken Earth ...

Culture + Society – Articles, Analysis, Comment - The Conversation

Disco classics, patriotic songs and celebrity endorsements featured heavily in the US election. Politicians can use music to evoke strong emotions and bring ...

Exploitation of natural resources - Wikipedia

The continuous alteration of the environment through water, mineral, and forest exploitation poses increased risks of climate-based displacement and conflict ...

Economic and Political Weekly: Home

The rise of intra-industry trade in processed agricultural products has been a central factor driving agricultural trade among countries of the global South, ...

Articles - University of Arizona Libraries

Special Section: Toxic dispossession and environmental violence in Latin America edited by Swistun, D., Lugo-Vivas, D. A. & Vélez-Torres, I. Grassroots ...

Environmental Violence in South America, Explained. |

Latin America is a region abundant in natural resources. Environmental defenders are in constant conflict with loggers, petroleum workers, ...

Vehicle emissions standards could come under scrutiny in the new ...

WSTN's central environmental claim is that U.S. liquefied natural gas can be climate-friendly by replacing coal burned overseas. A study that the group ...