num_pages: 352
description: Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that asustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost alwayslinked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are themost marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises.JustSustainabilities argues that social and environmental justice within and betweennations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promotesustainable development. The book addresses many aspects of the links betweenenvironmental quality and human equality and between sustainability andenvironmental justice more generally. The topics discussed include anthropocentrism;biotechnology; bioprospecting; biocultural assimilation; deep and radical ecology;ecological debt; ecological democracy; ecological footprints; ecologicalmodernization; feminism and gender; globalization; participatory research; place, identity, and legal rights; precaution; risk society; selective victimization; andvaluation.
language: English
title: Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World
titlecomplete: Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Urban and Industrial Environments)
genres: Social Justice, Environment, Politics, Design, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Mit Pr