The Cambridge handbook of environmental justice and sustainable development Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals environmental justice struggles are growing all over the world. These struggles are not isolated injustices but symptoms of interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the few while inflicting misery on the many and threatening ecological collapse. This handbook offers critical perspectives on the multi dimensional intersectional nature of environmental injustice and the cross cutting forms of oppression that unite and divide these struggles including gender race poverty and indigeneity. The work sheds new light on the often neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to human rights and environmental justice. Using a variety of legal frameworks and case studies from around the world this volume illustrates the importance of overcoming the fragmentation of these legal frameworks and social movements in order to develop holistic solutions that promote justice and protect the planets ecosystems at a time of intensifying economic and ecological crisis Foreword Boaventura de Sousa Santos Intersections of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development : Framing the Issues Sumudu Atapattu Carmen G. Gonzalez and Sara L. Seck The Indivisibility of Human Dignity and Sustainability Erin Daly and James R May Environmental Justice in the Global South Usha Natarajan Indigenous Environmental Justice and Sustainability Deborah McGregor Racial Capitalism and the Anthropocene Carmen G Gonzalez Human Rights and Socio Ecological Justice through a Vulnerability Lens Louis J Kotzé Social Ecological Resilience and its Relation to the Social Pillar of Sustainable Development Barbara Cosens Environmental Justice and Sustainability : The United States Experience Robin Morris Collin and Robert W. Collin The Role of Public Interest Litigation in Realizing Environmental Justice in South Asia : Selected Cases as Guidance in Implementing Agenda 2030 Shyami Puvimanasinghe Childrens Rights or Intergenerational Equity : Exploring childrens place in environmental justice Mona Paré Managing Water as Life in Guatemala : Lessons on Environmental Justice from Totonicapán Patrícia Galvão Ferreira and Mario Mancilla Indigenous Ancestors : Recognizing Legal Personality of Nature as a Reconciliation Strategy for Connective Sustainable Governance Jacinta Ruru Water Justice and The Social Pillar of Sustainable Development : The Case of Israel Tamar Meshel Gender Indigeneity and the Search for Environmental Justice in Post Colonial Africa Damilola S Olawuyi Colombo International Financial City : An example of un sustainability and injustice Lakshman Guruswamy Joshua C Gellers and Sumudu Atapattu Chemical Pollution and the Role of International Law in a Future Detoxified Sabaa Ahmed Khan Chinas Cancer Villages Quoc Nguyen Linda Tsang Tseming Yang Colonialism Environmental Injustice and Sustainable Development : Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands Antonio Pigrau The Vedanta (Niyamgiri) Case : Promoting Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development Stellina Jolly Demarginalizing the intersection of ecological and social disadvantage in South Africa : A critique of current approaches to dealing with historical injustice : the Tudor Shaft case study Jackie Dugard Sustainable Mining Environmental Justice and the Human Rights of Women and Girls : Canada as Home and Host State Sara L Seck and Penelope Simons Environmental Justice Sustainable Development and the Fight to Shut the Poletti Power Plant Rebecca M Bratspies The Indigeneity of Environmental Justice : A Dakota Access Pipeline Case Study Elizabeth Kronk Warner Energy Poverty Justice and Women Lakshman Guruswamy Energy Without Injustice : Indigenous Participation in Renewable Energy Generation Adrian A Smith and Dayna Nadine Scott Climate Justice and the Social Pillar in Californias Climate Policies Alice Kaswan Climate Change related Eco health Considerations for Environmental Impact Assessments in the Canadian Arctic Katherine Lofts and Kontantia Koutouki Climate Justice sustainable development and small island states : A case study of the Maldives Sumudu Atapattu and Andrea C. Simonelli Afterword : Toward a Law and Political Economy Approach to Environmental Justice Angela P Harris Beyond Fragmentation : Reflections Strategies and Challenges Sumudu Atapattu Carmen Gonzalez and Sara L. Seck