1. Introduction: Environmental Justice in Times of Backlash
Brendan Coolsaet
2. A History of Environmental Justice: Foundations, Narratives, and Perspectives
Esme Murdock
Part I: Defining and Conceptualizing Environmental Justice
3. Distributive Environmental Justice
Alice Kaswan
4. Procedure, Participation, and Environmental Justice
Kimberley R. M. Suiseeya
5. Recognition and Environmental Justice
Brendan Coolsaet and Pierre-Yves Neron
6. Capabilities, Well-being, and Environmental Justice
Breena Holland
7. Decolonial Environmental Justice
Iokine Rodriguez
8. Degrowth and Environmental Justice
Julien-Francois Gerber, Bengi Akbulut, Federico Demaria and Joan Martinez Alier
9. Sustainability and Environmental Justice
Julie Sze
10. Critical Environmental Justice Studies
David Pellow
11. Intersectionality and Environmental Justice
Giovanna Di Chiro
Part II: Issues and Sites of Environmental Justice
12. Toxic Legacies and Environmental Justice
Alice Mah
13. Biodiversity and Environmental Justice
Adrian Martin
14. Climate Justice
Gareth Edwards
15. Energy Justice
Rosie Day
16. Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Justice
Kristin Reynolds
17. Urban Environmental Justice
Jason A. Byrne
18. Water Justice
Rutgerd Boelens
Part III: Actors, Subjects, and Practices of Environmental Justice
19. Race, Migration, and Environmental Justice
Lisa Sun Hee Park and Stevie Ruiz
20. Gender Matters in Environmental Justice
Sherlyn Macgregor
21. Labour Unions, Workers, and Environmental Justice
Dimitris Stevis
22. Indigenous Environmental Justice
Kyle Whyte
23. Justice Beyond Humanity
Steve Cooke
24. Sustainable Materialism and Environmental Justice
David Schlosberg
25. Environmental Justice for Future Generations
Christine Winter
Part IV: Studying and Teaching Environmental Justice.
26. Geography and Environmental Justice
Gordon Walker
27. Sociology and Environmental Justice
Valerie Deldreve
28. Ecology and Environmental Justice
Maria Miriti and Ariel Rawson
29. Engineering and Environmental Justice
Regan F. Patterson
30. Economics and Environmental Justice
Danae Hernandez-Cortes and Elisheba Spiller
31. Anthropology and Environmental Justice
William L. Alexander
32. Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research for Environmental Justice
Tom Dedeurwaerdere
Biography
Brendan Coolsaet is a tenured Research Associate with the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and Research Professor at UCLouvain (Belgium).
“Written by long-time engaged scholars and activists, Environmental Justice: Key Issues should be the primer for anyone interested in environmental inequalities and their drivers and for helping to be more just and sustainable futures. As political backlashes and evidence-based decision-making increasingly question the validity of fighting for equitable transformations, this book is essential for building counter-movements and practices.”
Professor Isabelle Anguelovski, Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
“Coolsaet’s revised and fully updated Environmental Justice: Key Issues offers fresh, hopeful new collective histories of resistance as forms of moral and strategic action to both counter the backlash against environmental justice, and to deepen its transformative and emancipatory potential.”
Professor Julian Agyeman, Department Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University.
Praise for the 1st edition
“Impressive in its disciplinary, geographical, and topical breadth, Environmental Justice: Key Issues examines the many meanings of justice inherent to the field. Written as an introductory text, it manages to present scholarship that is simultaneously accessible and cutting-edge. A tremendous contribution for all teachers and students of environmental justice.”
Professor Laura Pulido, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Department, University of Oregon.
“Over the last decades, the study of environmental justice has become one of the most prominent fields in global sustainability governance. This timely new volume, carefully edited by Brendan Coolsaet, now brings together the Who’s Who of environmental justice scholarship for one of the first comprehensive reviews of all key issues at stake, covering the main concepts and issues and charting new research directions. The book is highly recommended for use in the classroom but also provides new insights and reflections for scholars and practitioners.”
Professor Frank Biermann, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University.
