| Description |
1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Environmental justice : a brief history and overview / Glenn S. Johnson -- Environmental justice cross-culturally : theory and praxis in the African diaspora and in Africa / Filomina C. Steady -- Mothering at the crossroads : African American women and the emergence of the movement against environmental racism / Celene Krauss -- Strategies of confinement : environmental injustice and police violence in Brazil / Christen A. Smith -- Gendered dimensions of environmental justice : Caribbean perspectives / Leith L. Dunn -- From colonialism to internal colonialism and crude socioenvironmental injustice : anatomy of violent conflicts in the Niger Delta of Nigeria / Francis O. Adeola -- Writing on water : environmental justice, common property institutions, and the state in Guinea / David Tabachnick -- Nuclear energy, hazardous waste, health, and environmental justice in South Africa : the continuing legacy of apartheid / Mashile F. Phalane and Filomina C. Steady -- Environmental injustice : African Indian response / Pashington Obeng -- The environment belongs to all of us : a vision of ethnic environmental participation in the United Kingdom / Judy Ling Wong -- Race, class, and Katrina : human rights and (un)natural disaster / Hope Lewis -- Environmental racism : black landowners, Katrina, and the making of a new Hilton Head--an Emmett Till continuum / Clenora Hudson-Weems |
| Summary |
Environmental Justice is one of the most important human rights challenge today. It combats the targeting people of color and poor people for the burdens of environmental degradation and pollution. Case studies from various parts of the world explore themes that include: historical and theoretical perspectives on Environmental Justice; the persistence of models of domination, exploitation and discrimination; gender implications of environmental degradation; violence and militarization; corporate globalization, climate change and the tragedy of Katrina. The Environmental Justice Movement represents a combination of academic, political, legal and grass-roots activism against environmental and social injustices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental justice.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Environmental justice
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Steady, Filomina Chioma.
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| ISBN |
9780230622531 |
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0230622534 |
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9781349379446 |
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1349379441 |
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9780230615847 |
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0230615848 |
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