Destroying God's creation or using what he provided?: Cultural models of a mining project in New Caledonia

Human Organization

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 292-306

  Horowitz, Leah S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Christianity; Environmental attitudes; Fundamentalism; Melanesia; Political ecology

Indexed keywords

CHRISTIANITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MINING; MODELING; RELIGION; SOCIAL STATUS;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 55849129208     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.67.3.a087g071782371q6     Document Type: Article

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