Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415589734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str.

Gordon Walker

Opis

Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises questions about how the environment impacts on different people's lives. Does pollution follow the poor? Are some communities far more vulnerable to the impacts of flooding or climate change than others? Are the benefits of access to green space for all, or only for some? Do powerful voices dominate environmental decisions to the exclusion of others? This book focuses on such questions and the complexities involved in answering them.

Spis treści

1. Understanding Environmental Justice  2. Globalising and Framing Environmental Justice  3. Making Claims: Justice, Evidence and Process  4. Locating Waste: Siting and the Politics of Dumping  5. Breathing Unequally: Air Quality and Inequality  6. Flood Vulnerability: Uneven Risk and the Injustice of Disaster  7. Urban Greenspace: Distributing an Environmental Good  8. Climate Justice: Scaling the Politics of the Future  9. Analysing Environmental Justice: Some Conclusions

O autorze

Gordon Walker is Chair of Environment, Risk and Justice in the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, UK.