Achieving environmental justice: a cross-national analysis

"Environmental justice aspires to a healthy environment for all, as well as fair and inclusive processes of environmental decision-making. In order to develop successful strategies to achieve this, it is important to understand the factors that shape environmental justice outcomes. This optimistic, accessible and wide-ranging book contributes to this understanding by assessing the extent of, and reasons for, environmental justice/injustice in seven diverse countries - United States, Republic of Korea (South Korea), United Kingdom, Sweden, China, Bolivia and Cuba. Factors discussed include: race and class discrimination; citizen power; industrialisation processes; political-economic context; and the influence of dominant environmental discourses. In particular, the role of capitalism is critically explored. Based on over a hundred interviews with politicians, experts, activists and citizens of these countries, this is a compelling analysis aimed at all academics, policy-makers and campaigners who are engaged in thinking or action to address the most urgent environmental and social issues of our time"--Provided by publisher

ACHIEVING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: fighting for humanity; Approach to the research; Scope and limitations; The structure of the book; Environmental justice from the inside; 2. The concept and measurement of environmental justice; Distributive justice3; Procedural justice; Substantive justice; Measuring environmental justice: the Environmental Justice Indicator Framework; 3. The causes of environmental injustice; Discrimination; Market dynamics; Lack of citizen power.

IndustrialisationIndividual behaviour or life-style; Culture; Capitalism; 4. 'Killing yourself is no way to make a living': environmental justice in the United States; Substantive environmental justice in the United States; Distributive environmental justice in the United States; Procedural environmental justice in the United States; Causes of environmental injustice in the United States; 5. 'The world has been deceived': environmental justice in the Republic of Korea (South Korea); Substantive environmental justice in the Republic of Korea.

Distributive environmental justice in the Republic of KoreaProcedu…