Achieving Environmental Justice: A Cross-National Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781447305941 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 320 str.

Karen Bell

Opis

This optimistic, accessible, and wide-ranging book examines environmental justicewhich focuses on inclusive processes of environmental decision-making for local communitiesin the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, South Korea, China, Bolivia, and Cuba. Karen Bell discusses environmental issues as they relate to a number of other topics, including race, class, industrialization, and politics, with a particular focus on the role of capitalism. Based on over one hundred interviews with politicians, experts, activists, and citizens of these countries, this compelling analysis will be invaluable to anyone engaged in addressing the most urgent environmental and social issues of our time.
"

Spis treści

Introduction: fighting for humanity; The concept and measurement of environmental justice; The causes of environmental injustice; 'Killing yourself is no way to make a living': environmental justice in the United States; 'The world has been deceived': environmental justice in the Republic of Korea (South Korea); 'Regulation means bad': environmental justice in the United Kingdom; 'We have always been close to nature': environmental justice in Sweden; 'The rich consume and the poor suffer the pollution': environmental justice in the People’s Republic of China; 'Recuperating all that we have lost and forgotten': environmental justice in the Plurinational State of Bolivia; 'Socialism creates a better opportunity': environmental justice in Cuba; Achieving environmental justice.