Spaces of environmental justice [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ryan Holifield, Michael Porter and Gordon Walker
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| Titolo: |
Spaces of environmental justice [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ryan Holifield, Michael Porter and Gordon Walker
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Environmental justice |
| Social justice | |
| Altri autori: |
HolifieldRyan
PorterMichael
WalkerGordon <1944->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Spaces of Environmental Justice; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Spaces of Environmental Justice-Frameworks for Critical Engagement; Part I: Frameworks for Critical Environmental Justice Research; 1 Beyond Distribution and Proximity: Exploring the Multiple Spatialities of Environmental Justice; 2 Actor-network Theory as a Critical Approach to Environmental Justice: A Case against Synthesis with Urban Political Ecology; 3 Gendered Geographies of Environmental Injustice; 4 Acknowledging the Racial State: An Agenda for Environmental Justice Research |
| Part II: Spaces for Critical Environmental Justice Research5 Digging Deep for Justice: A Radical Re-imagination of the Artisanal Gold Mining Sector in Ghana; 6 Benevolent and Benign? Using Environmental Justice to Investigate Waste-related Impacts of Ecotourism in Destination Communities; 7 Assembling Justice Spaces: The Scalar Politics of Environmental Justice in North-east England; 8 Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-natures and the Politics of Scale in the Delta; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this cutting-edge volume, leading scholars examine a diverse range of environmental inequalities from around the world.Shows how far the field has moved beyond its original focus on uneven distributions of pollution in the USA Considers the influence of critical geographical and social theory on environmental justice studiesExamines a range of possibilities for future research directionsExplores the challenges of investigating and pursuing environmental justice at a time of rapid economic and environmental change |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Spaces of environmental justice |
| ISBN: | 1-282-55115-9 |
| 9786612551154 | |
| 1-4443-2276-1 | |
| 1-4443-2277-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910830859203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Antipode book series.