ABSTRACT
We believe that the foregoing chapters in Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World contribute to an important and emerging realization: that a sustainable society must also be an equitable society, locally, nationally and internationally, both within and between generations and between species. As McLaren emphasized in Chapter 1 ‘equity considerations are embedded in all conceptualizations of sustainable development but rarely unpacked’. In unpacking sustainable development, and undertaking a project such as this, which extends and builds on previous work in both environmental justice and sustainability, our original aims were:
to map some of the key conceptual and practical challenges confronting both the ideas of sustainability and environmental justice to understand if and how we might see greater linkages between these ideas and their practical actions in the future;
to address different aspects of the three dimensions of the multiscalar links between environmental quality and human equality.
