Environmental Justice
Key Issues
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 14. December 2026
Book
Hardback
482 pages
978-1-032-86806-6 (ISBN)
Description
Revised and fully updated, Environmental Justice: Key Issues offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship.
The rapidly growing body of research on environmental justice has brought about a proliferation of ideas, concepts, approaches, and methodological developments. As such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students, scholars, and activists. Now in its second edition, this book is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts, they help the reader understand the foundations of the field of environmental justice studies, including the principal concepts, debates, and historical milestones. Also explored are the intersections between environmental justice and other contemporary struggles and approaches, including climate and energy justice, just transition, and justice for non-humans, as well as feminist, decolonial, and intersectional approaches. A brand new section on disciplinary insights provides a steppingstone for a critical and interdisciplinary study of environmental justice, and each chapter features learning outcomes, follow-up questions, and references for further reading, making the book a useful tool for both teaching and learning.
Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers, graduate students, undergraduates, and anyone in need of a comprehensive introduction to environmental justice.
The rapidly growing body of research on environmental justice has brought about a proliferation of ideas, concepts, approaches, and methodological developments. As such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students, scholars, and activists. Now in its second edition, this book is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts, they help the reader understand the foundations of the field of environmental justice studies, including the principal concepts, debates, and historical milestones. Also explored are the intersections between environmental justice and other contemporary struggles and approaches, including climate and energy justice, just transition, and justice for non-humans, as well as feminist, decolonial, and intersectional approaches. A brand new section on disciplinary insights provides a steppingstone for a critical and interdisciplinary study of environmental justice, and each chapter features learning outcomes, follow-up questions, and references for further reading, making the book a useful tool for both teaching and learning.
Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers, graduate students, undergraduates, and anyone in need of a comprehensive introduction to environmental justice.
Reviews / Votes
"Written by long-time engaged scholars and activists, Environmental Justice: Key Issues should be the primer for anyone interested in environmental inequalities and their drivers and for helping to be more just and sustainable futures. As political backlashes and evidence-based decision-making increasingly question the validity of fighting for equitable transformations, this book is essential for building counter-movements and practices."Professor Isabelle Anguelovski, Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
"Coolsaet's revised and fully updated Environmental Justice: Key Issues offers fresh, hopeful new collective histories of resistance as forms of moral and strategic action to both counter the backlash against environmental justice, and to deepen its transformative and emancipatory potential."
Professor Julian Agyeman, Department Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University.
Praise for the 1st edition
"Impressive in its disciplinary, geographical, and topical breadth, Environmental Justice: Key Issues examines the many meanings of justice inherent to the field. Written as an introductory text, it manages to present scholarship that is simultaneously accessible and cutting-edge. A tremendous contribution for all teachers and students of environmental justice."
Professor Laura Pulido, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Department, University of Oregon.
"Over the last decades, the study of environmental justice has become one of the most prominent fields in global sustainability governance. This timely new volume, carefully edited by Brendan Coolsaet, now brings together the Who's Who of environmental justice scholarship for one of the first comprehensive reviews of all key issues at stake, covering the main concepts and issues and charting new research directions. The book is highly recommended for use in the classroom but also provides new insights and reflections for scholars and practitioners."
Professor Frank Biermann, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Illustrations
6 s/w Tabellen, 10 s/w Zeichnungen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 12 s/w Abbildungen
6 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-86806-6 (9781032868066)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
approx. 12/2026
2nd Edition
Routledge
€64.60
Not yet published
Previous edition
Book
07/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€205.10
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
Brendan Coolsaet is a tenured Research Associate with the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and Research Professor at UCLouvain (Belgium).
Content
1. Introduction: Environmental Justice in Times of Backlash 2. A History of Environmental Justice: Foundations, Narratives, and Perspectives Part I: Defining and Conceptualizing Environmental Justice 3. Distributive Environmental Justice 4. Procedure, Participation, and Environmental Justice 5. Recognition and Environmental Justice 6. Capabilities, Well-being, and Environmental Justice 7. Decolonial Environmental Justice 8. Degrowth and Environmental Justice 9. Sustainability and Environmental Justice 10. Critical Environmental Justice Studies 11. Intersectionality and Environmental Justice Part II: Issues and Sites of Environmental Justice 12. Toxic Legacies and Environmental Justice 13. Biodiversity and Environmental Justice 14. Climate Justice 15. Energy Justice 16. Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Justice 17. Urban Environmental Justice 18. Water Justice Part III: Actors, Subjects, and Practices of Environmental Justice 19. Race, Migration, and Environmental Justice 20. Gender Matters in Environmental Justice 21. Labour Unions, Workers, and Environmental Justice 22. Indigenous Environmental Justice 23. Justice Beyond Humanity 24. Sustainable Materialism and Environmental Justice 25. Environmental Justice for Future Generations Part IV: Studying and Teaching Environmental Justice 26. Geography and Environmental Justice 27. Sociology and Environmental Justice 28. Ecology and Environmental Justice 29. Engineering and Environmental Justice 30. Economics and Environmental Justice 31. Anthropology and Environmental Justice 32. Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research for Environmental Justice