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Environmental Justice : Concepts, Evidence and Politics.
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 commu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Environmental Justice: Concepts, evidence and politics; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Understanding environmental justice; The scope of environmental justice; Framing; Claim-making; Definitions of environmental justice and the case for multiplicity; Defining environmental inequality: the is-ought distinction; Summary; Structure of the book; Further reading; 2. Globalising and framing environmental justice; The environmental justice movement in the US.
- The international travelling of the environmental justice frameEnvironmental justice framings of global issues; The implications of 'going global'; Summary; Further reading; 3. Making claims: justice, evidence and process; The three elements of claim-making; Justice concepts: how things ought to be; Evidence: how things are; Process: why things are how they are; Summary; Further reading; 4. Locating waste: siting and the politics of dumping; Resisting waste: three cases; Unequal patterns of waste site locations; Environmental racism or markets? Analysing positions.
- Displacement, toxic imperialism and environmental blackmailFrom redistribution to prevention; Summary; Further reading; 5. Breathing unequally: air quality and inequality; Air quality and multidimensional claim-making; Evidence of air quality inequality; Explaining patterns of inequality; Vulnerability and impacts on health: the 'triple jeopardy'; The distribution of responsibility for air pollution; Justice in the air; Summary; Further reading; 6. Flood vulnerability: uneven risk and the injustice of disaster; Characterising flooding: values, time and nature.
- Inequalities in flood exposure: who lives with flood risk and why?Inequalities in vulnerability: who suffers flood impacts?; New Orleans and the Katrina flood; Justice and flooding; Summary; Further reading; 7. Urban greenspace: distributing an environmental good; Greenspace as a 'good thing'; Always a good thing? Contested meanings of urban greenspace; Greenspace and social difference: evidence claims and inequality; Greenspace and justice; Summary; Further reading; 8. Climate justice: scaling the politics of the future; Challenges for climate justice; Impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation.
- Mitigation, responsibilities and transitionsTowards integration in climate justice; Summary; Further reading; 9. Analysing environmental justice: some conclusions; There is value in understanding exactly how social differentiation exists and how it is experienced in environmental terms; Environmental inequalities are constituted by more than spatial patterns of proximity and exposure; Recognising the methodological complexities and choices involved in generating empirical evidence is important in progressing understanding and in doing justice.