Description
The expert contributing authors find environmental justice at the intersection of human stability, accountability, rights, and dignity, and examine it across distributional, recognitional, and procedural justice dimensions and a capabilities approach. To advance tangible solutions to climate change, they recommend a plan of action which is sensitive to issues of implementation for vulnerable populations, such as discrimination, inequality, and injustice. Chapters call for practical and moral responses from politicians, corporations, and institutions who have the power and capacity to engage in non-partisan united action. Ultimately, the book engages with the complexity of environmental justice to understand the intersectional, multi-scalar, embedded nature of the problem.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this book is invaluable to students and scholars of climate change; environmental governance, regulation, politics, and policy; international relations; sustainable development studies and human geography. It is also a useful resource for policy advisors and activists concerned with climate change and environmental justice.
About the Author
Edited by Hoda Mahmoudi, Research Professor and Chair and Kate Seaman, Assistant Director, The Baha'i Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland, US
Reviews
'Global Climate Crisis honors the complexity of environmental justice, bringing together authors from the fields of health equity, urban planning, political ecology, environmental science and law, and social theory. The book warns against a universalizing, top-down approach to environmental justice, and instead engages with the knowledge and lived experiences of marginalized peoples and the more-than-human world. The chapters explore the many dimensions of climate justice and equity by bringing together empirical cases, such as the US-Mexico border and urban heat islands, with ecofeminist and anti-colonial theory building. This book is a wonderful resource for thinking about the complexity of climate justice, one that is not afraid to pose disruptive questions to the status quo.' -- Cara Daggett, Virginia Tech, USA
'This short collection of cutting edge contributions focuses clearly on the failures of conventional thinking to grapple with the rapidly growing climate crisis. While the dangers mount, so too do the opportunities to reformulate justice in novel ways incorporating ecological and indigenous insights to reimagine who we might become.' -- Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Book Information
ISBN 9781035308873
Author Hoda Mahmoudi
Format Hardback
Page Count 172
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
