The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9781009281935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 502 str.

Opis

Intersecting forms of oppression, including subordination based on race, class, gender, and indigeneity, produce environmental injustice and unsustainable development.

Recenzje

'The incontrovertible value of this very timely book is in how it compellingly and thoughtfully tells us what we should do to stop irreversible ecological harm. Anyone who wants to find out how environmental degradation intersects with individual and group oppression, and what can be done to achieve just and sustainable solutions must read this book.' James Thuo Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law, Loyola University School of Law, Illinois

Spis treści

Foreword by Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 1. Intersections of environmental justice and sustainable development: framing the issues Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Sara L. Seck; Part I. Frameworks: 2. The indivisibility of human dignity and sustainability Erin Daly and James R May; 3. Environmental justice in the global south Usha Natarajan; 4. Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability Deborah McGregor; 5. Racial capitalism and the anthropocene Carmen G Gonzalez; 6. Human rights and socio-ecological justice through a vulnerability lens Louis J K-otzé; 7. Social-ecological resilience and its relation to the social pillar of sustainable development Barbara Cosens; 8. Environmental justice and sustainability: the United States experience Robin Morris Collin and Robert W. Collin; Part II. Case studies; strategies, challenges and vulnerable groups: 9. The role of public interest litigation in realizing environmental justice in South Asia: selected cases as guidance in implementing agenda 2030 Shyami Puvimanasinghe; 10. Children's rights or intergenerational equity? exploring children's place in environmental justice Mona Paré; 11. Managing water as life in Guatemala: lessons on environmental justice from Totonicapán Patrícia Galvão Ferreira and Mario Mancilla; 12. Indigenous ancestors. Recognizing legal personality of nature as a reconciliation strategy for connective sustainable governance Jacinta Ruru; 13. Water justice and the social pillar of sustainable development: the case of Israel Tamar Meshel; 14. Gender, indigeneity, and the search for environmental justice in post-colonial Africa Damilola S Olawuyi; 15. Colombo international financial city: an example of un-sustainability and in-justice Lakshman Guruswamy, Joshua C Gellers and Sumudu Atapattu; 16. Chemical pollution and the role of international law in a future detoxified Sabaa Ahmed Khan; 17. China's cancer villages Quoc Nguyen, Linda Tsang, Tseming Yang; 18. Colonialism, environmental injustice, and sustainable development: nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands Antonio Pigrau; 19.The Vedanta (Niyamgiri) case: promoting environmental justice and sustainable development Stellina Jolly; 20. De marginalizing the intersection of ecological and social disadvantage in South Africa: a critique of current approaches to dealing with historical injustice – the Tudor shaft case study Jackie Dugard; 21. Sustainable mining, environmental justice, and the human rights of women and girls: Canada as home and host state Sara L Seck and Penelope Simons; 22. Environmental justice, sustainable development and the fight to shut the Poletti power plant Rebecca M Bratspies; 23. The indigeneity of environmental justice: a Dakota access pipeline case study Elizabeth Kronk Warner; 24. Energy poverty, justice and women Lakshman Guruswamy; 25. 'Energy without injustice'? indigenous participation in renewable energy generation Adrian A Smith and Dayna Nadine Scott; 26. Climate justice and the social pillar in California's climate policies Alice Kaswan; 27. Climate change-related eco-health considerations for environmental impact assessments in the Canadian Arctic Katherine Lofts and Kontantia Koutouki; 28. Climate justice, sustainable development and small island states: A case study of the Maldives Sumudu Atapattu and Andrea C. Simonelli; Part III. Conclusion: 29. Afterword: toward a law and political economy approach to environmental justice Angela P Harris; 30. Beyond fragmentation: reflections, strategies and challenges Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen Gonzalez and Sara L. Seck.