Is environmental justice all dried up? Drilling for water in the everglades dredges up questions regarding the potential for a just environmental sustainability

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Andrea L. Best
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Sustainability

Ecotourism in Protected Areas

2019 ◽  
pp. 22-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaunette M. Sinclair-Maragh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Resources

This chapter explores the role of ecotourism in the sustainable development of protected areas. It specifically examines the aims of ecotourism in simultaneously contributing to economic development and environmental sustainability in protected areas. The chapter further analyzes protected areas within the ecological, human, and institutional dimensions, and demonstrates how the outcomes of ecotourism are linked to the economic, social, and environmental pillars that drive sustainable development. The chapter also discusses challenges surrounding the sustainability of ecotourism in protected areas and several mitigation strategies. It concludes that while ecotourism aims for economic development it can have detrimental effects on the ecological resources and host communities if not managed in a strategic sustainable way. The chapter recommends that ecotourism in protected areas should be carried out within the realm of environmental justice where all stakeholders and the natural environment are treated with respect and equity.

scholarly journals The Commodification of Food, Farming and Farmers: A Critical Review of Farm Laws, 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Vinay Sankar
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Peasant Resistance

The recently enacted Farm Laws in India has led to widespread and vigorous protests across the country. It has been hailed as a watershed moment by the neoliberal market analysts and is compared to the 1991 economic reforms, based on the notions of liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation. A critical review of these laws and amendments needs to be situated in the larger narrative of commodification, wherein certain essential goods and services are appropriated and standardised and traded at market-determined prices. The present review intends to place these new laws in the broader policies and ‘projects’ of neoliberalisation of nature. A critical look at these laws shows that they have profound implications for social justice and environmental sustainability. It seeks to cross-question the food question and the peasant question by revisiting the ontological questions of what constitutes food and farming. It considers the new debate and the old vision of ‘food as commons’, and find that the new laws are, in fact, a continuation of attempts by neoliberal markets and states to commodify food and farming activities. Nevertheless, such attempts, for various reasons, face active resistance in the form of countermovements by the peasantry and enter the arena of political economy. The review argues that the present peasant resistance should be considered as part of the larger environmental justice movements.

Urban Sustainability and the “Greening” of Neoliberal Chicago

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Lorr
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
City Government ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The City

Chapter abstract: This chapter addresses how the city government, related offices, non-profit organizations, and activists have attempted to shift Chicago’s urban development towards environmental sustainability. The chapter first, discusses what Chicago has accomplished, second, defines sustainability, third, outlines Chicago’s deficiencies in achieving its sustainability goals, and finally, presents alternative visions of sustainability rooted in resistance and activism. This chapter asks to what extent sustainable development in Chicago is influenced by its business-as-usual neoliberal context and to what extent it is influenced by alternative activist ideas of environmental justice.

Linking Environmental Sustainability and Consumption

2018 ◽  
pp. 576-591
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Dewey ◽  
Dana R. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
The United States ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Trump Administration

What is the connection between environmental sustainability and consumption? This chapter focuses on how consumption has been employed as a tactic for social change that is meant to improve the natural environment. Although consumption is a central way that society contributes to and responds to concern about environmental degradation, it has received limited attention in the research on sustainability thus far. This chapter focuses specifically on the ways that consumption has been addressed by researchers focusing on sustainability, paying particular attention to the environmental and environmental justice movements and the recent wave of contention in the Resistance, a political movement in the United States that is challenging the Trump administration and its policies, more specifically.

Socio-environmental Sustainability: Lessons from Environmental Justice Activism

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-18
Author(s):  
Emily McKee
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Sustainability

Russia’s green development

2020 ◽  
pp. 865-888
Author(s):  
Olga Ulybina
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
The People ◽  
Green Development

This chapter discusses the effect of the concepts of environmental sustainability, ecological safety, and green growth on the state of the natural environment and the lives of the people in Russia. The chapter focuses on trends and cases in environmental pollution (air, forests, water, and soil), climate change, the energy sector, and the Arctic. Over the three post-Soviet decades, Russia has gone through many changes in environmental governance. The main environmental achievements concern increased energy efficiency and a reduction in the extent of industrial pollution. However, overall progress towards a greener society has been slow, hindered by the reliance of the national economy on natural resource extraction, political inertia, limited public environmental control, poor law enforcement, and insufficient respect for civil rights. We highlight the policy gap in the area of environmental justice and frame ‘green growth’ problems as ‘environmental justice’ problems.

Environmental and Climate Justice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Vanderheiden
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Climate Treaty

This chapter surveys the origin and development of environmental justice discourse from its early use as a civil rights strategy to resist the siting of hazardous waste facilities in the neighborhoods of poor people of color to its more contemporary usage as a directive for equity in global cooperation in pursuit of environmental sustainability. From debates among scholars and activists over the demands of justice as applied to problems of global climate change mitigation and adaptation, or climate justice, it examines three principles of justice invoked in a landmark climate treaty and later applied to the design and evaluation of international climate change policy efforts. The chapter concludes by considering potential new directions that environmental justice theorizing might take in the context of other issues in environmental politics.

Environmental Justice and Sustainability

2018 ◽  
pp. 178-192
Author(s):  
Edward Page
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
The Past

Concepts of environmental justice and environmental sustainability have attracted steadily increasing interest amongst political theorists and political scientists in the past few decades. The explosion of interest in normative and policy dimensions of global climate change since the negotiation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) of 1992 have only accelerated this interest. Nevertheless, there is continuing disagreement in the literature concerning the meaning of sustainable development, the connection between environmental sustainability and norms of global and intergenerational justice, weak vs strong sustainability, and the extent to which normative theory can contribute to the implementation of policies of sustainable development. This chapter explores the conceptual development of environmental sustainability, and aims to show how normative theory can enrich the discussion of sustainable development in theory and in practice.

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