Environmental inequalities beyond borders : local perspectives on global injustices /

Case studies demonstrate the spatial disconnect between global consumption and production and its effects on local environmental quality and human rights.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carmin, JoAnn (Editor ), Agyeman, Julian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
Colección:Urban and industrial environments.
Temas:
Environmental justice.
Environmental degradation.
Globalization > Environmental aspects.
Justice environnementale.
Environnement > Dégradation.
Mondialisation > Aspect de l'environnement.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Environmental degradation
Environmental justice
Globalization > Environmental aspects
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: environmental injustice beyond borders / Julian Agyeman, JoAnn Carmin
  • Spatial justice and climate change: multiscale impacts and local development in Durban, South Africa / Isabelle Anguelovski, Debra Roberts
  • Learning from the quest for environmental justice in the Niger River Delta / Max Stephenson Jr., Lisa A. Schweitzer
  • Foreign investment and environmental justice in an island economy: mining, bottled water, and corporate social responsibility in Fiji / Saleem H. Ali, Mary A. Ackley
  • Global civil society and the distribution of environmental goods: funding for environmental NGOs in Ecuador / Tammy L. Lewis
  • Environmental justice, values, and biological diversity: the San and the Hoodia benefit-sharing agreement / Saskia Vermeylen, Gordon Walker
  • Global environmental governance and pathways for the achievement of environmental justice / Beth Schaefer Caniglia
  • Governing and contesting China's Oil operations in the global south / Patricia Widener
  • Resisting environmental injustice through sustainable agriculture: examples from Latin America and their implications for U.S. food politics / Alison Hope Alkon
  • Going beyond the state to strengthen the rule of law: local activists, transnational networks, and gold mining in Bulgaria / Barbara Hicks
  • Politics by other greens: the importance of transnational environmental justice movement networks / David Naguib Pellow
  • Reflections on environmental inequality beyond borders / JoAnn Carmin, Julian Agyeman.

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