Sustainability : approaches to environmental justice and social power / edited by Julie Sze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sze, Julie, editor.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability.

Social justice--21st century.

Social justice.

Environmental justice--21st century.

Environmental justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice? This volume tackles these questions, placing social justice and interdisciplinary approaches at the center of efforts for a more sustainable world. Contributors present empirical case studies that illustrate how sustainability can take place without contributing to social inequality. From indigenous land rights, climate conflict, militarization and urban drought resilience, the book offers examples of ways in which sustainability and social justice strengthen one another. Through an understanding of history, diverse cultural traditions, and complexity in relation to race, class, and gender, this volume demonstrates ways in which sustainability can help to shape better and more robust solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Blending methods from the humanities, environmental sciences and the humanistic social sciences, this book offers an essential guide for the next generation of global citizens.A critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice? This volume tackles these questions, placing social justice and interdisciplinary approaches at the center of efforts for a more sustainable world. Contributors present empirical case studies that illustrate how sustainability can take place without contributing to social inequality. From indigenous land rights, climate conflict, militarization and urban drought resilience, the book offers examples of ways in which sustainability and social justice strengthen one another. Through an understanding of history, diverse cultural traditions, and complexity in relation to race, class, and gender, this volume demonstrates ways in which sustainability can help to shape better and more robust solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Blending methods from the humanities, environmental sciences and the humanistic social sciences, this book offers an essential guide for the next generation of global citizens.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Situating Sustainability from an Ecological Science Perspective: Ecosystem Services, Resilience, and Environmental Justice

2. Situating New Constellations of Practice in the Humanities: Toward a Just and Sustainable Future

3. Situating Sustainability against Displacement: Building Campus- Community Collaboratives for Environmental Justice from the Ground Up

4. Situating Global Policies within Local Realities: Climate Conflict from California to Latin America

5. Situating Urban Drought Resilience: Theory, Practice and Sustainability Science

6. Indigenous Lessons about Sustainability Are Not Just for “All Humanity”

7. Situating Sustainability in the Luxury City: Toward a Critical Urban Research Agenda

8. Man Destroys Nature?: Gender, History, and the Feminist Praxis of Situating Sustainability

9. I Tano’ i Chamorro/Chamorro Land: Situating Sustainabilities through Spatial Justice and Cultural Perpetuation

10. Equality in the Air We Breathe: Police Violence, Pollution, and the Politics of Sustainability

Afterword: From More than Just Sustainability to a More Just Resilience

Acknowledgments

About the Editor

About the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781479822447

1479822442

OCLC:

1035556364