Just Sustainabilities : Development in an Unequal World.
Title:
Just Sustainabilities : Development in an Unequal World.
Author:
Bullard, Robert D.
ISBN:
9781849771771
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Just Sustainabilities -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 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 - Julian Agyeman, Robert D Bullard and Bob Evans -- Part 1: Some Theories and Concepts -- 1. Environmental Space, Equity and the Ecological Debt - Duncan McLaren -- 2. Neo-liberalism, Globalization and the Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Linking Sustainability and Environmental Justice - Daniel R Faber and Deborah McCarthy -- 3. Inequality and Community and the Challenge to Modernization: Evidence from the Nuclear Oases - Andrew Blowers -- Part 2: Challenges -- 4. Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability: Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet? - Andrew Dobson -- Part 3: Cities, Communities and Social and Environmental Justice -- 5. When Consumption Does Violence: Can there be Sustainability and Environmental Justice in a Resource-limited World? - William E Rees and Laura Westra -- 6. Race, Politics and Pollution: Environmental Justice in the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor - Beverly Wright -- 7. Identity, Place and Communities of Resistance - Devon G Peña -- 8. Environmental Justice in State Policy Decisions - Veronica Eady -- Part 4: Selected Regional Perspectives on Sustainability and Environmental Justice -- 9. Sustainability and Equity: Reflections of a Local Government Practitioner in Southern Africa - Debra Roberts -- 10. Mining Conflicts, Environmental Justice and Valuation - Joan Martinez-Alier -- 11. Women and Environmental Justice in South Asia - Anoja Wickramasinghe.
12. Maori Kaupapa and the Inseparability of Social and Environmental Justice: An Analysis of Bioprospecting and a People's Resistance to (Bio)cultural Assimilation - Stefanie S Rixecker and Bevan Tipene-Matua -- 13. Political Economy of Petroleum Resources Development, Environmental Injustice and Selective Victimization: A Case Study of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria - Tunde Agbola and Moruf Alabi -- 14. Environmental Protection, Economic Growth and Environmental Justice: Are They Compatible in Central and Eastern Europe? - Alberto Costi -- 15. The Campaign for Environmental Justice in Scotland as a Response to Poverty in a Northern Nation - Kevin Dunion and Eurig Scandrett -- Conclusion: Towards Just Sustainabilities: Perspectives and Possibilities - Julian Agyeman, Robert D Bullard and Bob Evans -- Index.
Abstract:
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. This book argues 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 the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and environmental justice.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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