Environment and Social Justice: An International Perspective
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Volume 18.
Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, this book is a compilation of original research articles and is divided into six parts. Articles in Part I focus on urban environmental issues and sustainability including Central Park's influence on historical and contemporary models of funding public parks, London's community-based efforts to deliver affordable fresh food to the poor and the relationship between sustainable living, green consumption and social justice concerns in an ecovillage in New York. Part II concentrates on water resources and the hazards of toxic fish consumption. Part III features food security, agriculture and land loss. Energy and the theme of land and resource loss in host communities is the focus in Part IV. It discusses the poverty that is pervasive in communities hosting extractive oil and gas installations and the industry and attitudes towards it in rural Trinidad and Nigeria. Part V employs spatial analyses techniques to examine siting and toxic releases and Part VI examines diversity and environmental attitudes and presents findings of national studies and environmental conflicts.
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Movements, Neighborhood Change and the Media: Newspaper Coverage of Anti-gentrification Activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. 1995-2005
June Gin
Fritz Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
and Dorceta E. Taylor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Food Security and Sustainability: Community Food Initiatives in London
Shumaisa Khan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA