Urban Ecosystem Justice: Strategies for Equitable Sustainability and Ecological Literacy in the City

ISBN-13: 9780367858704 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 242 str.

Scott Kellogg

Opis

Merging together the fields of urban ecology, environmental justice, and urban environmental education, this book promotes building fair, accessible, and mutually beneficial relationships between citizens and the soils, water, atmospheres, and biodiversity in their cities.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I Urban Ecosystem Justice Theory  Chapter 1: Ecological Alienation: Roots and Remedies  Chapter 2: Exclusion of Social Sustainability and Emergence of Enviro-Technocratic Governance  Part II Urban Ecosystem Justice Applications  Chapter 3: Urban Soil Justice: Ecoremediation versus the Toxisphere   Chapter 4: Urban Water Justice: DIY River Remediation in the Aquatic Commons  Chapter 5: Urban Atmospheric Justice  Chapter 6: Urban Compost Justice  Chapter 7: Urban Biodiversity Justice   Part III Urban Ecosystem Justice Pedagogy  Chapter 8: The Radix Experiment  Conclusion

O autorze

Scott Kellogg has been Educational Director of the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center, an urban environmental education and just sustainabilities advocacy non-profit based in Albany, New York, since 2009. Prior to Radix, Scott was a co-founder and collective member of the Rhizome Collective in Austin, Texas, an urban sustainability and activist center which functioned from 2000 to 2009. Scott has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, a master’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins, and a bachelor’s degree in Humanities from the New College of California. He teaches in a number of graduate and undergraduate programs in universities throughout the Northeast, including Bard College’s Masters in Environmental Education program. Scott is the coauthor of Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide (2008).