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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812727303321

Titolo

Environmental inequalities beyond borders : local perspectives on global injustices / / edited by JoAnn Carmin and Julian Agyeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-262-29457-5

1-283-11916-1

9786613119162

0-262-29568-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Urban and industrial environments

Disciplina

363.7

Soggetti

Environmental justice

Environmental degradation

Globalization - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; I Consumption and the Rise of Inequalities Beyond Borders; 2 Spatial Justice and Climate Change; 3 Learning from the Quest for Environmental Justice in the Niger River Delta; 4 Foreign Investment and Environmental Justice in an Island Economy; II The Amplification of Inequality through International Donors and Institutions; 5 Global Civil Society and the Distribution of Environmental Goods; 6 Environmental Justice, Values, and Biological Diversity; 7 Global Environmental Governance and Pathways for the Achievement of Environmental Justice

III Networked Responses to Global Inequality8 Governing and Contesting China's Oil Operations in the Global South; 9 Resisting Environmental Injustice through Sustainable Agriculture; 10 Going Beyond the State to Strengthen the Rule of Law; 11 Politics by Other Greens; IV Conclusion; 12 Reflections on Environmental Inequality Beyond Borders; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Case studies demonstrate the spatial disconnect between global consumption and production and its effects on local environmental



quality and human rights.