Gordon Walker

Environmental Justice

Concepts, Evidence and Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book will provide readers with a wide ranging and critical view of the evolving field of environmental justice scholarship and encourages careful thinking and analysis of what is at issue, and provides a framework for understanding the claim making of environmental justice in spatial, temporal and political context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780415589741
• ISBN-10: 0415589746
• Artikelnr.: 33380288

Autorenporträt

Gordon Walker is Chair of Environment, Risk and Justice in the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Understanding Environmental Justice 2. Globalising and Framing
Environmental Justice 3. Making Claims: Justice, Evidence and Process 4.
Locating Waste: Siting and the Politics of Dumping 5. Breathing Unequally:
Air Quality and Inequality 6. Flood Vulnerability: Uneven Risk and the
Injustice of Disaster 7. Urban Greenspace: Distributing an Environmental
Good 8. Climate Justice: Scaling the Politics of the Future 9. Analysing
Environmental Justice: Some Conclusions