ECOLOGICAL DEBT THE PEOPLES OF THE SOUTH ARE THE CREDITORS

World Council of Churches

Cases from Ecuador, Mozambique, Brazil and India

Preface By Rogate R. Mshana (World Council of Churches)

Chapter I. Introduction to Ecological Debt,  By Athena K. Peralta (World Council of Churches)

Chapter II. Sowing Deserts: The Social and Ecological Debt Generated by the Foreign Debt Acquired for the Jaime Roldós Aguilera Multipurpose Project, By Luis Corral (Accion Ecológica)

Chapter III. Dams on the Zambesi River as Sources of Ecological Debt to the People of Mozambique, By Francis Ng’ambi (Economic Justice Network of the Fellowship of the Council of Churches in Southern Africa)

Chapter IV. Swedish Pulp and Paper in Brazil The Case of Veracel, By Mans Andersson and Orjan Bartholdson (SwedWatch) (with a foreword by Lennart Molin)

Chapter V. Ecological Debt: A Case Study from Orissa, India, By Sanjay Khatua and William Stanley (Integrated Rural Development of Weaker Sections in India)

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