Environmental Justice
Key Issues
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2020
364 pages
978-0-429-64233-3 (ISBN)
Description
Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship.
The rapidly growing body of research in this area has brought about a proliferation of approaches; as such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students and scholars. This book therefore is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts from a variety of professional, geographic, ethnic, and disciplinary backgrounds, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts-approaches, issues, actors and future directions-the chapters help the reader to understand the foundations of the field, including the principal concepts, debates, and historical milestones. This volume also features sections with learning outcomes, follow-up questions, references for further reading and vivid photographs to make it a useful teaching and learning tool.
Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and anyone in need of a comprehensive introductory textbook on environmental justice.
The rapidly growing body of research in this area has brought about a proliferation of approaches; as such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students and scholars. This book therefore is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts from a variety of professional, geographic, ethnic, and disciplinary backgrounds, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts-approaches, issues, actors and future directions-the chapters help the reader to understand the foundations of the field, including the principal concepts, debates, and historical milestones. This volume also features sections with learning outcomes, follow-up questions, references for further reading and vivid photographs to make it a useful teaching and learning tool.
Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and anyone in need of a comprehensive introductory textbook on environmental justice.
Reviews / Votes
"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"This is an excellent collection of writing about the foundations, diversity and future of environmental justice, as both a site of activism and academic research. The range of authors is particularly impressive, spanning multiple disciplines, perspectives and contexts. For those studying environmental justice there is much in here that will inform and inspire." - Professor Gordon Walker, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
"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." - Frank Biermann, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
3 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-0-429-64233-3 (9780429642333)
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Brendan Coolsaet is Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at ESPOL, the European School of Political and Social Sciences at Lille Catholic University, France.
Content
1. Introduction, Brendan Coolsaet 2. A History of Environmental Justice: Foundations, Narratives, and Perspectives, Esme Murdock Part 1: Defining and conceptualizing environmental justice 3. Distributive Environmental Justice, Alice Kaswan 4. Procedural Justice Matters: Power, Representation, and Participation in Environmental Governance, Kimberly R.M. Suiseeya 5. Recognition and Environmental Justice, Brendan Coolsaet and Pierre-Yves Neron 6. Capabilities, Well-Being, and Environmental Justice, Breena Holland 7. The Latin American Decolonial Environmental Justice Approach, Iokine Rodriguez 8. Degrowth and Environmental Justice: An alliance between two movements? Julien-Francois Gerber, Bengi Akbulut, Federico Demaria and Joan Martinez Alier 9. Sustainability and Environmental Justice: Parallel Tracks or at the Crossroads? Julie Sze Part 2: Issues of environmental justice 10. Toxic Legacies and Environmental Justice, Alice Mah 11. Biodiversity: Crisis, Conflict and Justice, Adrian Martin 12. Climate Justice, Gareth Edwards 13. Energy Justice, Rosie Day 14. Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Justice: Perspectives on Scholarship and Activism in the Field, Kristin Reynolds 15. Urbanisation: Towns and cities as sites of environmental (in)justice, Jason A. Byrne 16. Water Justice: Blatant grabbing practices, subtle recognition politics, and the struggles for fair water worlds, Rutgerd Boelens Part 3: Actors and subjects of environmental justice 17. Racial Minorities in the United States: Race, Migration, and Reimagining Environmental Justice, Lisa Sun-Hee Park and Stevie Ruiz 18. Gender Matters in Environmental Justice, Sherilyn MacGregor 19. Labour Unions and Environmental Justice: The Trajectory and Promise of Just Transition, Dimitris Stevis 20. Indigenous Environmental Justice: Anti-Colonial Action through Kin-Making, Kyle Whyte 21. Justice Beyond Humanity, Steve Cooke Part 4: Future directions of environmental justice 22. Critical Environmental Justic Studies, David Pellow 23. Sustainable Materialism and Environmental Justice, David Schlosberg 24. Mobilizing 'Intersectionality' in Environmental Justice Research and Action in a Time of Crisis, Giovanna Di Chiro
