Environmental inequalities beyond borders : local perspectives on global injustices / edited by JoAnn Carmin and Julian Agyeman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carmin, JoAnn.

Agyeman, Julian.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice.

Environmental degradation.

Globalization--Environmental aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

vi, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262515873

9780262015516

026201551X

9780262515870

OCLC:

664115063

Publisher Number:

99954165390