Environmental Justice: Key Issues

“Written by long-time engaged scholars and activists, Environmental Justice: Key Issues should be the primer for anyone interested in environmental inequalities and their drivers and for helping to be more just and sustainable futures. As political backlashes and evidence-based decision-making increasingly question the validity of fighting for equitable transformations, this book is essential for building counter-movements and practices.” Professor Isabelle Anguelovski, Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. “Coolsaet’s revised and fully updated Environmental Justice: Key Issues offers fresh, hopeful new collective histories of resistance as forms of moral and strategic action to both counter the backlash against environmental justice, and to deepen its transformative and emancipatory potential.” Professor Julian Agyeman, Department Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University. Praise for the 1st edition “Impressive in its disciplinary, geographical, and topical breadth, Environmental Justice: Key Issues examines the many meanings of justice inherent to the field. Written as an introductory text, it manages to present scholarship that is simultaneously accessible and cutting-edge. A tremendous contribution for all teachers and students of environmental justice.” Professor Laura Pulido, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Department, University of Oregon. “Over the last decades, the study of environmental justice has become one of the most prominent fields in global sustainability governance. This timely new volume, carefully edited by Brendan Coolsaet, now brings together the Who’s Who of environmental justice scholarship for one of the first comprehensive reviews of all key issues at stake, covering the main concepts and issues and charting new research directions. The book is highly recommended for use in the classroom but also provides new insights and reflections for scholars and practitioners.” Professor Frank Biermann, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University.