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Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders : Local Perspectives on Global Injustices.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Urban and Industrial Environments SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262295680
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Environmental Inequalities Beyond BordersDDC classification:
  • 363.7
LOC classification:
  • GE220 .E575 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
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 Inequality -- 8 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.
Summary: Case studies demonstrate the spatial disconnect between global consumption and production and its effects on local environmental quality and human rights.
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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 Inequality -- 8 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.

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

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