Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0774816198 ISBN 13: 9780774816199

Casa editrice: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Environmental justice as a concept has evolved over the past two decades to offer new, challenging directions for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity and the environmental aspects of sustainability has been little considered in Canada, particularly in studies and discussions focused primarily on the environment.

Speaking for Ourselves draws together scholars and activists - Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, established and new - who bring equity issues to the forefront by considering environmental justice in specifically Canadian cases and contexts and from a variety of perspectives, including those of First Nations and women. The contributors expand notions of justice and the concepts involved in environmental justice beyond their European origins and limits to demonstrate new ways of working toward environmental sustainability and social justice.

This innovative, engaging collection gives a voice to multiple perspectives on environmental justice and its construction in Canada. As the first major examination of the multidimensionality of environmental equity and injustice, it will appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the social and environmental sciences and to activists and citizens who want to make Canadian society more just and sustainable.

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L'autore:

Julian Agyeman is a professor in and chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. Peter Cole is an associate professor of Aboriginal and Northern Studies at the University College of the North. Randolph Haluza-DeLay is an assistant professor of sociology at King’s University College. Pat O’Riley is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University.

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• Editore: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0774816198
• ISBN 13: 9780774816199
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 269
• Redattore: Agyeman Julian, Cole Peter, Haluza-DeLay Randolph, O'Riley Pat