ABSTRACT

Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship.

The rapidly growing body of research in this area has brought about a proliferation of approaches; as such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students and scholars. This book therefore is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts from a variety of professional, geographic, ethnic, and disciplinary backgrounds, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts—approaches, issues, actors and future directions—the chapters help the reader to understand the foundations of the field, including the principal concepts, debates, and historical milestones. This volume also features sections with learning outcomes, follow-up questions, references for further reading and vivid photographs to make it a useful teaching and learning tool.

Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and anyone in need of a comprehensive introductory textbook on environmental justice.

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|12 pages

A history of environmental justice

Foundations, narratives, and perspectives

part I|99 pages

Defining and conceptualizing environmental justice

chapter 3|16 pages

Distributive environmental justice

chapter 4|15 pages

Procedural justice matters

Power, representation, and participation in environmental governance

chapter 8|13 pages

Degrowth and environmental justice

An alliance between two movements?

chapter 9|11 pages

Sustainability and environmental justice

Parallel tracks or at the crossroads?

part II|103 pages

Issues of environmental justice

chapter 11|16 pages

Biodiversity

Crisis, conflict and justice

chapter 12|13 pages

Climate justice

chapter 13|15 pages

Energy justice

chapter 14|17 pages

Food, agriculture, and environmental justice

Perspectives on scholarship and activism in the field

chapter 15|14 pages

Urbanisation

Towns and cities as sites of environmental (in)justice

chapter 16|15 pages

Water justice

Blatant grabbing practices, subtle recognition politics and the struggles for fair water worlds

part III|68 pages

Actors and subjects of environmental justice

chapter 17|9 pages

Racial minorities in the United States

Race, migration, and reimagining environmental justice

chapter 19|17 pages

Labour unions and environmental justice

The trajectory and politics of just transition

chapter 20|13 pages

Indigenous environmental justice

Anti-colonial action through kinship

chapter 21|12 pages

Justice beyond humanity