Contents: Introduction. Part I Foundations of Environmental Justice: Race and the Distribution of Risk: Solid waste sites and the black Houston community, Robert D. Bullard; Environmental justice and the sustainable city, Graham Haughton; The environment of justice, David Harvey; Just garbage, Peter S. Wenz; A wilderness environmentalism manifesto: contesting the infinite self-absorption of humans, Kevin Michael DeLuca. Part II New Directions in Environmental Justice: beyond Equitable Risk: Principles of environmental justice, First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit; Justice, democracy, and hazardous siting, Christian Hunold and Iris Marion Young; Distributive justice, participative justice, and the principle of prima facie political equality, Kristen Shrader-Frechette; Reconceiving environmental justice: global movements and political theories, David Schlosberg; Women and toxic waste protests: race, class and gender as resources of resistance, Celene Krauss; Social justice and environmental goods, David Miller. Part III International and Intergenerational Environmental Justice: Global environmental justice, Dale Jamieson; Global environment and international inequality, Henry Shue; Thick cosmopolitanism, Andrew Dobson; Allocating ecological space, Steve Vanderheiden; Environmental justice and economic degrowth: an alliance between two movements, Joan Martinez-Alier; Sustainability and intergenerational justice, Brian Barry. Part IV Applied Environmental Justice: Resources, Climate and Food: Global justice and the distribution of natural resources, Tim Hayward; Cosmopolitan justice, responsibility, and global climate change, Simon Caney; Global inequality and climate change, J. Timmons Roberts; The hijacking of the global food supply, Vandana Shiva. Name index.