Urban Ecosystem Justice : Strategies for Equitable Sustainability and Ecological Literacy in the City.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellogg, Scott, author.

Series:

Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice.

Sustainable development.

Urban ecology (Biology).

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Urban environments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages) Print 241p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

"Merging together the fields of urban ecology, environmental justice, and urban environmental education, Urban Ecosystem Justice promotes building fair, accessible, and mutually beneficial relationships between citizens and the soils, water, atmospheres, and biodiversity in their cities. This book provides a framework for re-centering issues of justice and fairness in sustainability discourse while challenging the profound ecological alienation experienced by urban residents. While the urban sustainability movement has had many successes in the past few decades, there remain areas for it to grow. For one, the benefits of sustainability have disproportionately benefited wealthier city residents, with concerns over equity, justice and social sustainability frequently taking a back seat to economic and environmental considerations. Additionally, many city dwellers remain estranged from and unfamiliar with ecological processes, with urban environments often thought of as existing outside of nature or as hopelessly degraded. Through a citizen-centered lens, the book offers a guide to reconciling these issues by demonstrating how questions of equity, access, and justice apply to the biophysical dimensions of the urban ecosystem: soil, water, air, waste, and biodiversity. Drawing heavily from the fields of urban ecology, environmental justice, and ecological design, this book lays out a science of cities for people: a pedagogical platform that can be used to promote ecological literacy in underrepresented urban communities through affordable and decentralized means. This book provides both a theoretical and practical field guide to students and researchers of urban sustainability, city planners, architects, policymakers and activists wishing to develop reciprocal relationships with urban ecologies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Urban ecosystem justice

a chaotic bricolage of concepts

Ecological alienation

roots and remedies

Exclusion of social sustainability and emergence of enviro-technocratic governance

Urban ecosystem justice

urban ecosystem justice applications

Urban soil justice: ecoremediation versus the toxisphere

Urban waters justice: DIY river remediation in the aquatic commons

Urban atmospheric justice

Urban biodiversity justice

Urban ecosystem justice pedagogy

The radix experiment.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-367-85871-1

1-000-45067-8

9780367858711

OCLC:

1261366041