Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
472
ISBN
 
0262511312
Издатель
 
Princeton University Press
Категория
 
Разное

Описание:

Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are the most marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises. Just Sustainabilities argues that social and environmental justice within and between nations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promote sustainable development. The book addresses many aspects of the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and environmental justice more generally. The topics discussed include anthropocentrism; biotechnology; bioprospecting; biocultural assimilation; deep and radical ecology; ecological debt; ecological democracy; ecological footprints; ecological modernization; feminism and gender;...

Похожие книги

Applying Psychology to Criminal JusticeApplying Psychology to Criminal Justice
Автор: David Carson
Год: 2007
Social JusticeSocial Justice
Автор: Matthew Clayton
Год: 2003
A Game Called JusticeA Game Called Justice
Автор: Deirdre Glascoe
Год: 2009