Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice

Name: Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice
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ISBN: 9780814707111

ISBN-10: 0814707114

ISBN-13: 9780814707111

Edition: 2005

Authors: Julian Agyeman

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Popularized in the movies Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, "environmental justice" refers to any local response to a threat against community health. In this book, Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. Yet sustainability, which focuses on meeting our needs today while not compromising the ability of our successors to meet their needs, has not always partnered with the challenges of environmental justice. Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice explores the ideological differences between these two groups and shows how they can work together. Agyeman provides concrete examples…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 245
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Environmental Justice



The Sustainability Discourse and Sustainable Communities



Just Sustainability in Theory



Just Sustainability in Practice



Alternatives for Community and Environment



From Confrontation to Implementation: Some Concluding Thoughts



Principles of Environmental Justice


Notes


References


Index