Violence of Development - Resource Depletion, Environmental Crises Human Rights Abuses in

Compelling analysis revealing the endemic violence and systematic impoverishment at the heart of 'development'.

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgements List Of Boxes List Of Figures List Of Tables 1 Introduction 2 Food - For Whose Table? 3 Water - Flowing in the Wrong Direction 4 Energy - Powerful Forces 5 Mining - All that Glitters... 6 Deforestation and Reforestation - Can't See the Wood for the Trees 7 Industrialisation and Free Trade Treaties - From Slavery to Sweatshop 8 Indigenous Groups - The Fourth World Fights Back 9 The Violence of Development - Human Rights defenders against the wall 10 Whither Development? Selected Bibliography Index

About the author

Martin Mowforth lecturers at the University of Plymouth in the UK. He is the author of The Violence of Development (Pluto, 2014) and co-author of Tourism and Sustainability: Development, Globalisation and New Tourism in the Third World (2009).

Summary

Compelling analysis revealing the endemic violence and systematic impoverishment at the heart of 'development'.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Mowforth, Mowforth Martin
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2014
• EAN: 9780745333946
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3394-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Violence in society, Development Studies, Violence and abuse in society, Central America, Mexico and Central America