Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe — loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in-depth include:

human rights and environmental degradation

nation-state struggles over indigenous rights

rights abuse accompanying resource extraction, weapons production, and tourism development

environmental racism, gender bias, and multinational industry double standards

social justice environmentalism

The book incorporates material from a wide range of economic and geographic contexts, including case studies from China, Russia, Latin America, the United States, Canada, Africa, and the South Pacific.