Environmental Justice Popular Struggle And Community Development
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Environmental Justice Popular Struggle And Community Devt
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Author : Harley, Anne
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2019-06-05
Environmental Justice Popular Struggle And Community Devt written by Harley, Anne and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-05 with Political Science categories.
Struggles for environmental justice involve communities mobilising against powerful forces which advocate ‘development’, driven increasingly by neoliberal imperatives. In doing so, communities face questions about their alliances with other groups, working with outsiders and issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, worker/community and settler/indigenous relationships. Written by a wide range of international scholars and activists, contributors explore these dynamics and the opportunities for agency and solidarity. They critique the practice of community development professionals, academics, trade union organisers, social movements and activists and inform those engaged in the pursuit of justice as community, development and environment interact.
The Urban Struggle For Economic Environmental And Social Justice
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Author : Malo André Hutson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-19
The Urban Struggle For Economic Environmental And Social Justice written by Malo André Hutson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Business & Economics categories.
This book discusses the current demographic shifts of blacks, Latinos, and other people of colour out of certain strong-market cities and the growing fear of displacement among low-income urban residents. It documents these populations’ efforts to remain in their communities and highlights how this leads to community organizing around economic, environmental, and social justice. The book shows how residents of once-neglected urban communities are standing up to city economic development agencies, influential real estate developers, universities, and others to remain in their neighbourhoods, protect their interests, and transform their communities into sustainable, healthy communities. These communities are deploying new strategies that build off of past struggles over urban renewal. Based on seven years of research, this book draws on a wealth of material to conduct a case study analysis of eight low-income/mixed-income communities in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. This timely book is aimed at researchers and postgraduate students interested in urban policy and politics, community development, urban studies, environmental justice, urban public health, sociology, community-based research methods, and urban planning theory and practice. It will also be of interest to policy makers, community activists, and the private sector.
Community Development
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Author : Margaret Ledwith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-08
Community Development written by Margaret Ledwith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-08 with categories.
The social justice principles that guide the work of community development are increasingly under threat from the current worldwide resurgence of far right politics. The dangerous escalation of economic inequalities calls for new ideas on power and new approaches to practice. Linking theory to action using international case studies, key concept summaries, and even cartoons, this new edition of Community Development offers a wealth of practicable solutions for anyone committed to social and environmental justice.
Environmental Justice
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Author : John Byrne
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Environmental Justice written by John Byrne and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Nature categories.
Environmental justice is one of the most controversial and important issues in contemporary social science. Volume 8 of the Energy and Environmental Policy series challenges our understanding of environmental justice in a global context. It includes theoretical investigations and case studies by leading authors in the field. Global forces of technology and the development of global markets are transforming social life and the natural order. These changes require a critical examination of nature-society relations. Increasingly, modernization assigns the risks of modernity to those with the least power and greatest vulnerability to environmental harm. Conventional environmentalism, which focuses on critique of the effects of humanity against nature, is inadequate to the challenges of globalization. In particular, it fails to explain sources of persistent patterns of social injustice that accompany escalating environmental exploitation. As the capacity for environmental destruction expands, broader concerns about environmental injustice have come to the fore, including awareness of threats to whole cultures, ways of life, and entire ecologies. The volume's authors consider the links between expanded patterns of environmental injustice and the structures and forces underlying and shaping the international political economy. Environmental injustice is examined across a variety of cultures in the developed and developing world. Through case studies of climate colonialism, revolutionary ecology, and environmental commodification, the global and local dimensions of the problem are presented. The latest volume in this important series demonstrates that environmental justice cannot be reduced to simple parables of indifference, prejudice, or appropriation. It forges understanding of environmental injustice as a development of international political economy itself. Likewise, initiatives on behalf of environmental justice are seen as elements of broader movements to secure self-determination in a globalizing world. This book will be of interest to policymakers, energy and environmental experts, and all those interested in the environment and environmental law. It provides new perspectives on the place of environmental justice in international political and economic conflict. John Byrne is director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware. Leigh Glover is a research fellow at the same Center. Cecilia Martinez is a professor of ethnic studies at the Metropolitan State University (Minnesota) and a research associate of the American Indian Research and Policy Institute.
Where We Live Work And Play
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Author : Patrick Novotny
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2000-08-30
Where We Live Work And Play written by Patrick Novotny and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-30 with Science categories.
Numerous studies have revealed that the poor disproportionately bear the burden of environmental problems in America today. Issues range from higher levels of poisonous wastes, carbon dioxide, and ozone, to greater than normal incidences of asthma and lead poisoning. The environmental justice movement, which has emerged in working class and low-income African American and Latino communities since the early 1990s, is an effort that is reinterpreting the definition of the environment as where we live, work, and play to connect new constituencies traditionally outside of the postwar environmental movement. Novotny documents this expanding constituency through case studies of four community groups ranging from South Central Los Angeles to Louisiana. Environmental racism is understood as yet another type of discrimination which results in a high incidence of environmental concerns in poorer communities due to what many activists see as discriminatory land use practices, decisions by industry that intentionally locate hazardous wastes in these communities, and the uneven enforcement of environmental regulations by federal, state, and local officials. Community leaders have added environmental causes to their fight against unemployment, impoverishment, and substandard housing. This study explores various attempts to put a halt to illegal practices and to broaden public awareness of the issues involved.
Environmental Justice Popular Struggle And Community Development
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Author : Harley, Anne
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2019-06-05
Environmental Justice Popular Struggle And Community Development written by Harley, Anne and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-05 with Political Science categories.
Struggles for environmental justice involve communities mobilising against powerful forces which advocate ‘development’, driven increasingly by neoliberal imperatives. In doing so, communities face questions about their alliances with other groups, working with outsiders and issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, worker/community and settler/indigenous relationships. Written by a wide range of international scholars and activists, contributors explore these dynamics and the opportunities for agency and solidarity. They critique the practice of community development professionals, academics, trade union organisers, social movements and activists and inform those engaged in the pursuit of justice as community, development and environment interact.
Environmental Justice In A Moment Of Danger
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Author : Julie Sze
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-01-07
Environmental Justice In A Moment Of Danger written by Julie Sze and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with History categories.
“Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.”—Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does this moment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love, and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice, packed with cautiously hopeful stories for the future.
Toxic Struggles
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Author : Richard Hofrichter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Toxic Struggles written by Richard Hofrichter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Nature categories.
The environmental justice movement is a kind of socio-environmentalism which reacts when corporate or government business negatively and simultaneously impacts on marginalized human groups and nature. Twenty-three essays by James O'Connor, Ynestra King, Winona LaDuke, Cesar Chavez, Mary Mellor and other activists explore topics such as the polluting plunder and pillage of resources in developing countries, the dangers to farm workers from agribusiness, environmental racism, grassroots ecofeminism, dangerous workplaces, blue collar women protesters of toxic waste, native peoples' objections to the conquest of nature, and the most encompassing topic, the capitalist juggernaut against nature. Appended is the Principles of Environmental Justice, adopted at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit (1991), calling for, among other things, "the conscious decision to challenge and reprioritize our lifestyles to insure the health of the natural world for present and future generations." Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Community Development Second Edition
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Author : Ledwith, Margaret
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2011-04-27
Community Development Second Edition written by Ledwith, Margaret and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-27 with Social Science categories.
Community development finds itself in times of unprecedented political, social and economic change, locally and globally, at the same time as divisions between poverty and privilege widen. Building practical approaches to theory and theoretical approaches to practice, this updated and expanded second edition of a bestselling text develops critiques of the changing context and identifies challenges faced by community development both at community level and as a collective force for a more just, equal and sustainable future. Featuring a range of different models of community development and illustrative stories from practitioners in the field, the new edition will be essential reading for practitioners, students and educators involved in community development, youth and community work, social work, health and education.
Environmental Justice And Sustainability In The Former Soviet Union
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Author : Julian Agyeman
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009
Environmental Justice And Sustainability In The Former Soviet Union written by Julian Agyeman and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Environmental degradation categories.
An examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics--from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic region to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia--and the resulting activism in those states. The legacy of environmental catastrophe in the states of the former Soviet Union includes desertification, pollution, and the toxic aftermath of industrial accidents, the most notorious of which was the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. This book examines the development of environmental activism in Russia and the former Soviet republics in response to these problems and its effect on policy and planning. It also shows that because of increasing economic, ethnic, and social inequality in the former Soviet states, debates over environmental justice are beginning to come to the fore. The book explores the varying environmental, social, political, and economic circumstances of these countries--which range from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic states to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia--and how they affect the ecological, environmental, and public health. Among the topics covered are environmentalism in Russia (including the progressive nature of its laws on environmental protection, which are undermined by overburdened and underpaid law enforcement); the effect of oil wealth on Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan; the role of nationalism in Latvian environmentalism; the struggle of Russia's indigenous peoples for environmental justice; public participation in Estonia's environmental movement; and lack of access to natural capital in Tajikistan. Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union makes clear that although fragile transition economies, varying degrees of democratization, and a focus on national security can stymie progress toward "just sustainability," the diverse states of the former Soviet Union are making some progress toward "green" and environmental justice issues separately.