Just Sustainabilities

by Agyeman, Julian; Bullard, Robert D.; Evans, Bob

• ISBN13: 9781853837296
• ISBN10: 1853837296
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 marginatized are selectively victimized by environmental crises. Just Sustainabilities 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 many aspects of the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and environmental justice more generally. The topics discussed include anthropocentrism; biotechnology; bioprospecting; biocultural assimilation; deep and radical ecology; ecological debt; ecological democracy; ecological footprints; ecological modernization; feminism and gender; globalization; participatory research; place, identity, and legal rights; precaution; risk society; selective victimization; and valuation. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Introduction: Joined-up Thinking: Bringing Together Sustainability, Environmental Justice and Equity	p. 1
Some Theories and Concepts
Environmental Space, Equity and the Ecological Debt	p. 19
Neo-liberalism, Globalization and the Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Linking Sustainability and Environmental Justice	p. 38
Inequality and Community and the Challenge to Modernization: Evidence from the Nuclear Oases	p. 64
Challenges
Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability: Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet?	p. 83
Cities, Communities and Social and Environmental Justice
When Consumption does Violence: Can there be Sustainability and Environmental Justice in a Resource-limited World?	p. 99
Race, Politics and Pollution: Environmental Justice in the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor	p. 125
Identity, Place and Communities of Resistance	p. 146
Environmental Justice in State Policy Decisions	p. 168
Selected Regional Perspectives on Sustainability and Environmental Justice
Sustainability and Equity: Reflections of a Local Government Practitioner in Southern Africa	p. 187
Mining Conflicts, Environmental Justice and Valuation	p. 201
Women and Environmental Justice in South Asia	p. 229
Maori Kaupapa and the Inseparability of Social and Environmental Justice: An Analysis of Bioprospecting and a People's Resistance to (Bio)cultural Assimilation	p. 252
Political Economy of Petroleum Resources Development, Environmental Injustice and Selective Victimization: A Case Study of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria	p. 269
Environmental Protection, Economic Growth and Environmental Justice: Are They Compatible in Central and Eastern Europe?	p. 289
The Campaign for Environmental Justice in Scotland as a Response to Poverty in a Northern Nation	p. 311
Conclusion: Towards Just sustainabilities: Perspectives and Possibilities	p. 323
Index	p. 336
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