Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In recent years, environmental justice has become an important framework for the analysis of diverse environmental conditions and a powerful catalyst for popular mobilization in different parts of the world.Growing numbers of activists, scholars and policymakers refer to the framework of environmental justice when trying to understand the multiple concerns and claims over environmental degradation, resource rights, food security, climate change, local environmental knowledge, and other environmental issues (Carruthers 2008).In this rapidly evolving field, discourses related to eco-imperialism are gaining popularity, especially when exploring the disproportionate impact of environmental degradation on the lives of poor communities and ethnic minorities in the Global South.This chapter aims to provide an overview of environmental justice as both a framework for the analysis of environmental concerns, and a discourse for political action.The main focus will be on the multifaceted links between the critique of eco-imperialism and the struggles over environmental justice in the Global South.As Joan Martínez Alier (2009) remarks, environmental issues are not just a matter of academic inquiry, or a luxury of the rich.They
Source: Routledge eBooks
Author: Anja Nygren
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2401969913