...This chapter tries to provide an understanding of environmental justice. It starts with the concepts of environmental justice and sustainability both at the UK and global levels. It explores the constructs of governance, human rights, and participation, and then focuses on the interpretation...

... to the English planning system are embedded, defining participatory democracy widely to include both ‘invited’ and ‘invented’ spaces. It provides some context and background to the other sites of participatory democracy that the book engages with: environmental justice movements, participatory rural development...

... inspectors Sandercock L performativity Walker G citizen science environmental justice NGOs participatory democracy science community organising in informal settlements Holston J informal settlements community organising in insurgent knowledge invented spaces invited spaces Arapacio I R Blaser...

... material artefacts agency of Cornwall A Gaventa J Parker G AONB Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Landscape Character Appraisal Wroston NPG case study Raco M Callon M knowledge Secretary of State for planning Burns L chemical pollution citizen science environmental justice Gabrys J...

...The environmental justice literature broadly offers five competing explanations for environmental injustice: discrimination; market dynamics; lack of citizen power; industrialisation; and capitalism. The wider environmental literature, which corresponds to the ‘substantive’ aspect of environmental...

...This chapter explores how local perceptions of climate change intersect with considerations of environmental justice, contrasting moral readings of climate change that differently emphasise ‘universal’, ‘industrial’ and ‘local’ blame. It contrasts Jinja residents’ narratives of self-blame...

...This chapter describes how a team of US civil-rights attorneys worked with grassroots organisations to file and win a landmark environmental-justice class action against the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA). The plaintiffs alleged that MTA operated separate and unequal bus...

... to and from work; lack of childcare; no public transportation in rural areas; and the job market locating further distances from the centres of cities and urban sprawl. Equally evident, given the multiple and complex nature of the problem, is that there is no single solution. employment environmental justice...

...The main focus of this chapter is to explore how environmental harm is constructed in relation to humans. Environmental justice refers to the distribution of environments among peoples in terms of access to and use of specific natural resources in defined geographical areas...

... ) ‘ Rights and justice on a shared planet: more rights or new relations? ’, Theoretical Criminology , vol 2, no 2, pp 149–75. 10.1177/1362480698002002002 Bovenkerk, B. ( 2003 ) ‘ Is smog democratic? Environmental justice in the risk society ’, Melbourne Journal of Politics...

...This chapter, based on narratives of waste and recycling in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in Bristol, UK, provides evidence of unequal and unjust burdens faced by deprived communities in relation to waste collection services. The chapter unfolds the concept of environmental justice and gives...

... Newham Docklands Forum People’s Plan Centre People’s Plan for the Royal Docks 1983 Royal Docks London Brownhill S Labour Party politics politicians World Transformed The TWT safe spaces universities Hughes K Participatory action research Environmental justice Popular planning Urban...

...This chapter focuses on developing principles of distributive justice — not only looking at ecological justice but also proposing complementary principles of environmental justice. In the context of a multitude of environmental crises and in regard to considerations about distributive justice...

... for nonhuman living beings. Based on the framework developed in the previous chapters, this chapter argues that the Half-Earth proposal can constitute a distributively just compromise between demands of ecological and environmental justice on the question of distribution of space in terms of habitat, but only...

... Reinhart C Rogoff K Krugman P private sector public private partnerships PPPs sub prime housing crisis Wells R Pollock Allyson Private Finance Initiative PFI Bristow G inter generational justice resilience competitiveness conflict Local Agenda city planning economic crisis environmental...

... movement processes in which community development plays a role. Such resistance draws on the rich yet conflicted theoretical resources which have developed through academic labour around analysing the social practices of community, development and environmental justice as well as the intellectual work...

... experience as occupational and environmental health activists, have provided a picture of the changing patterns of work under neoliberalism, and the implications for community and workers’ struggle for environmental justice and occupational health. Themes include the erosion of the distinction between work...

...Environmental justice aspires to a healthy environment for all, as well as fair and inclusive processes of environmental decision-making. In order to develop successful strategies to achieve this, it is important to understand the factors that shape environmental justice outcomes. This optimistic...

...Drawing on practices and theories of environmental justice, this book describes China's contribution to global warming and analyses its policy responses. Contributors critically examine China's practical and ethical responsibilities to climate change from a variety of perspectives. They explore...

... through academic labour around analysing the social practices of community development, popular struggle and environmental justice. The second fundamental source is the intellectual work of ordinary people engaged in such material struggles to change the world from where they live and work and make...