"Society for Applied Anthropology, Committee on Human Rights and the Environment." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Environmental degradation and human rights abuse / Barbara Rose Joh nston -- Resource wars : nation and state conflicts of the twentieth century / Jason W. Clay -- Human rights, development, and the envir onment in the Peruvian Amazon : the Ashaninka case / John H. Bodley -- The Yanomami holocaust continues / Leslie Sponsel -- Gold miners and Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon : the Hashimu massacre / Bruce Albert -- Human rights and the environment in southern Afri ca : san experiences / Robert K. Hitchcock -- Defining the crisis, s haping the response : an overview of environmental issues in China / Barbara Rose Johnston and Margaret A. Byrne -- Mineral development, environmental degradation, and human rights : the Ok Tedi Mine, Pap ua New Guinea / Barbara Rose Johnston and Daniel Jorgensen -- Compet ing for resources : first nation rights and economic development in the Russian Far East / Debra L. Schindler -- Producing food for expo rt : environmental quality and social justice implications of shrimp mariculture in Honduras / Susan C. Stonich -- Human rights, environ ment, and development : the dispossession of fishing communities on Lake Malawi / Bill Derman and Anne Ferguson -- Experimenting on huma n subjects : nuclear weapons testing and human rights abuse / Barbar a Rose Johnston -- Resource use and abuse on Native American land : uranium mining in the American Southwest / Barbara Rose Johnston and Susan Dawson -- Human environment and the notion of impact / Roy A. Rappaport -- Contested terrain : a social history of human environm ental relations in arctic Alaska / Norman A. Chance -- Democracy and human rights : conditions for sustainable resource utilization / Er ling Berge -- Environmental alienation and resource management : Vir gin Islands experiences / Barbara Rose Johnston -- Human environment al rights issues and the multinational corporation : industrial deve lopment in the free trade zone / Barbara Rose Johnston and Gregory B utton -- The abuse of human environmental rights : experience and re sponse ; Concluding remarks / Barbara Rose Johnston.