Title

The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development

Authors

Sumudu A. Atapattu
Carmen Gonzalez, Loyola University Chicago, Law School
Sara L. Seck, Dalhousie University Schulich School of LawFollow

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Description

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 planet's ecosystems at a time of intensifying economic and ecological crisis.

ISBN

9781108555791

Publication Date

2021

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City

New York

Keywords

Environmental Justice, Sustainable Development, Social Development, Intersectionality, Race, Gender Indigenous Environmental Justice, Anthropocene, Human Rights, Green Economy, Degrowth, Sustainable Development Goals

Disciplines

Environmental Law | Human Rights Law | International Law | Law | Law and Economics | Law and Society

Comments

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555791

Recommended Citation

Sumudu A Atapattu, Carmen G Gonzalez, & Sara L Seck, eds, The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021).