People and the environment on the edge
Environmental vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean

Five hundred years of exploitation have severely damaged the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Today, it is poor people who continue to suffer most from the consequences of this environmental damage and degradation.

In this Comment, J Timmons Roberts and Bradley C Parks examine the causes and consequences of such problems as deforestation, water contamination, and soil erosion. They argue that neoliberal structures of aid, trade, debt and investment are the underlying root causes of the region's 'environmental vulnerability' - whereby poor people are most vulnerable to the adverse consequences of the stresses that the modern world is placing on the environment.

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2004 ISBN 1 85287 309 4
24pp 130mm x 195mm