Just Sustainabilities Development in an Unequal World

Name: Just Sustainabilities Development in an Unequal World
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ISBN: 9780262011990

ISBN-10: 0262011999

ISBN-13: 9780262011990

Edition: 2003

Authors: Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard, Bob Evans

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Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are the most marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises. Just Sustainabilitiesargues that social and environmental justice within and between nations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promote sustainable development. The book addresses many aspects of the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/28/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 367
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Tables, Figures and Boxes


List of Contributors


List of Acronyms and Abbreviations


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Joined-up Thinking: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Equity




Some Theories and Concepts



Environmental Space, Equity and the Ecological Debt




Neo-liberalism, Globalization and the Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Linking Sustainability and Environmental Justice




Inequality and Community and the Challenge to Modernization: Evidence from the Nuclear Oases




Challenges



Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability: Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet?




Cities, Communities and Social and Environmental Justice



When Consumption does Violence: Can there be Sustainability and Environmental Justice in a Resource-limited World?




Race, Politics and Pollution: Environmental Justice in the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor




Identity, Place and Communities of Resistance




Environmental Justice in State Policy Decisions




Selected Regional Perspectives on Sustainability and Environmental Justice



Sustainability and Equity: Reflections of a Local Government Practitioner in Southern Africa




Mining Conflicts, Environmental Justice and Valuation




Women and Environmental Justice in South Asia




Maori Kaupapa and the Inseparability of Social and Environmental Justice: An Analysis of Bioprospecting and a People's Resistance to (Bio)cultural Assimilation




Political Economy of Petroleum Resources Development, Environmental Injustice and Selective Victimization: A Case Study of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria




Environmental Protection, Economic Growth and Environmental Justice: Are They Compatible in Central and Eastern Europe?




The Campaign for Environmental Justice in Scotland as a Response to Poverty in a Northern Nation



Conclusion: Towards Just sustainabilities: Perspectives and Possibilities



Index