Engaging with Environmental Justice: Governance, Education and Citizenship / Edited by Matthew Cotton; Bernardo Heisler Motta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cotton, Matthew, editor.

Motta, Bernardo Heisler, editor.

Series:

Critical issue.

Critical Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice--Political aspects.

Environmental justice.

Environmental justice--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engaging with Environmental Justice: Governance, Education and Citizenship is a compilation of theoretical and empirical works presented during the 9th Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship conference of the Inter-disciplinary Net in Oxford, U. K.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""PART I Citizen Action for Environmental Protection ""; ""Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice - Hoetzer ""; ""The Community's Right to Know about Toxic Spills in American Legislation - Motta ""; ""The Role of Citizenship Responsibility for Environment within Individualized Society - Kala ""; ""Agent Orange and Its Victims: A Neglected Warning - Thao Chi ""; ""PART II Eduction and Environmental Transformation ""

""Inequality, Exclusion and Discrimination: The Mexican Biosafety Law - Cano & Ibarra """"Rural Landholders in Queensland Australia: Legislation, Litigation and Litigants - Kehoe ""; ""The Rural Community in Queensland Australia: Political Systems and the Politicisation of Environmental Law - Kehoe ""; ""The Cultural Impacts of Climate Change - Techera ""; ""PART IV Governing the Environment: State and Non-State Actors ""; ""NGOs' Involvement in Developing the Aauhus Convention: A Case of a UNECE Conference - Stech ""

""Eracdicating the Water and Sanitation Crises via Unification - Thompson """"A Role for Corporate Sustainability Strategy in the Garden City - Palframan, Jenkins & Zhang ""; ""PART V Engaging with Technology ""; ""Sharing and Shaping Perceptions: Dialogues with Expertise in the Deployment of Renewable Energy Technologies - Alvial-Palavicio & Yarime ""; ""Public Participation in UK Infrastrcture Planning: Democracy, Technology and Environmental Justice - Cotton ""

""Succeed through Science? Science, Technology and Innovation as a Central Theme in a Scenarios Exercise to Guide a Societally-Centred Approach to Environmental Management - kass """"A Bio-Integrated Model of Food Production Based on Scientific and Traditional Knowledge in Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico - Dominguez-Trejo, Morales-Garza & Dominguez ""; ""PART VI Rethinking Climate Change ""; ""Climate and Agency: Post-Humanist Geographies and Environmental Change - Burns ""; ""Adapting to Climate Change: Science, Scepticism and Philosophy - Irwin ""

""The Climate Change Debate: Where do We Go from Here? - Hadfield ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-062-6

OCLC:

891397147

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848880627 DOI