Achieving Environmental Justice
eBook - ePub

Achieving Environmental Justice

A Cross-National Analysis

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Achieving Environmental Justice

A Cross-National Analysis

About this book

Environmental justice aspires to a healthy environment for all, as well as fair and inclusive processes of environmental decision-making. In order to develop successful strategies to achieve this, it is important to understand the factors that shape environmental justice outcomes. This optimistic, accessible and wide-ranging book contributes to this understanding by assessing the extent of, and reasons for, environmental justice/injustice in seven diverse countries - United States, Republic of Korea (South Korea), United Kingdom, Sweden, China, Bolivia and Cuba. Factors discussed include: race and class discrimination; citizen power; industrialisation processes; political-economic context; and the influence of dominant environmental discourses. In particular, the role of capitalism is critically explored. Based on over a hundred interviews with politicians, experts, activists and citizens of these countries, this is a compelling analysis aimed at all academics, policy-makers and campaigners who are engaged in thinking or action to address the most urgent environmental and social issues of our time.

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Table of contents

  1. Coverpage
  2. Titlepage
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures and tables
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of abbreviations
  8. One: Introduction: fighting for humanity
  9. Two: The concept and measurement of environmental justice
  10. Three: The causes of environmental injustice
  11. Four: ā€˜Killing yourself is no way to make a livingā€™: environmental justice in the United States
  12. Five: ā€˜The world has been deceivedā€™: environmental justice in the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
  13. Six: ā€˜Regulation means badā€™: environmental justice in the United Kingdom
  14. Seven: ā€˜We have always been close to natureā€™: environmental justice in Sweden
  15. Eight: ā€˜The rich consume and the poor suffer the pollutionā€™: environmental justice in the Peopleā€™s Republic of China
  16. Nine: ā€˜Recuperating all that we have lost and forgottenā€™: environmental justice in the Plurinational State of Bolivia
  17. Ten: ā€˜Socialism creates a better opportunityā€™: environmental justice in Cuba
  18. Eleven: Achieving environmental justice
  19. Appendices
  20. References