ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how the relationship between sustainability and justice has been problematized and presents an overview of sustainability discourses that are present in current debate and policy formulations. It highlights how different views on nature and justice within sustainability discourses suggest different solutions and transformations, and also discusses how elements of different discourses can be merged to avoid silo-based policy where environmental quality and human equality are separated. The chapter then considers how this framework can be applied and operationalized in policy, planning and decision-making. The Green Growth discourse acknowledges natural resources as 'fundamental for the economy and for well-being'. While eco-localism, limits to growth and the green growth paradigm all focus on resources, the environmental justice discourse focuses on everyone's right to a clean environment and also a just distribution of environmental burdens and the right to participate in environmental decision-making.
