| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 303 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Urban and industrial environments |
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Urban and industrial environments.
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| Contents |
Introduction: environmental injustice beyond borders / Julian Agyeman, JoAnn Carmin -- Spatial justice and climate change: multiscale impacts and local development in Durban, South Africa / Isabelle Anguelovski, Debra Roberts -- Learning from the quest for environmental justice in the Niger River Delta / Max Stephenson Jr., Lisa A. Schweitzer -- Foreign investment and environmental justice in an island economy: mining, bottled water, and corporate social responsibility in Fiji / Saleem H. Ali, Mary A. Ackley -- Global civil society and the distribution of environmental goods: funding for environmental NGOs in Ecuador / Tammy L. Lewis -- Environmental justice, values, and biological diversity: the San and the Hoodia benefit-sharing agreement / Saskia Vermeylen, Gordon Walker -- Global environmental governance and pathways for the achievement of environmental justice / Beth Schaefer Caniglia -- Governing and contesting China's Oil operations in the global south / Patricia Widener -- Resisting environmental injustice through sustainable agriculture: examples from Latin America and their implications for U.S. food politics / Alison Hope Alkon -- Going beyond the state to strengthen the rule of law: local activists, transnational networks, and gold mining in Bulgaria / Barbara Hicks -- Politics by other greens: the importance of transnational environmental justice movement networks / David Naguib Pellow -- Reflections on environmental inequality beyond borders / JoAnn Carmin, Julian Agyeman |
| Summary |
Case studies demonstrate the spatial disconnect between global consumption and production and its effects on local environmental quality and human rights |
| Analysis |
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental justice.
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Environmental degradation.
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Globalization -- Environmental aspects
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Environmental degradation
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Environmental justice
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Globalization -- Environmental aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carmin, JoAnn, editor.
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Agyeman, Julian, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780262295680 |
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0262295687 |
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1283119161 |
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9781283119160 |
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