Trouble in Paradise
Subtitle: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415929790
Subjects: Pollution & threats to the environment; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Latin America; Development - Economic Development; General; Globalization; Environmental degradation; Environmental policy; Pollution; Sustainable development
First sentence: Hiking across the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica in early 1982, I (Roberts) spent a night at the guardhouse of the Corcovado National Park, one of the most remote and best-protected pieces of old-growth tropical rainforest in Central America.