The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
In an era when federal ownership and control of natural resources is under suspicion, conservation trusts have emerged into the policy limelight after more than a century in the shadows. This book asks whether conservation trusts can live up to their promise as an efficient and responsive environmental protection policy.
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
Steven Luper-Foy offers a defence of the resource equity principle from both points of view, the libertarian and the Rawlsian.
Humans must define and carry out a way of life so that each generation can fulfill and forward their obligation to their children while enjoying a favourable way of life themselves.
Diane Saxe argues that a stronger “fiduciary” duty is required where corporations take risks with the environment and that economic activities must move from open to closed (sustainable) systems.
Jack L. Knetsch discusses the contingent valuation of people’s willingness to pay in relation to environmental valuation.
Ken Cruikshank and Nancy Bouchier’s research on the environmental history of the Hamilton, Ontario, waterfront since 1955 looks at who determines the environmental health of a community.
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Marcus Vogt discusses climate change as an issue of justice. Sustainability, in Vogt’s view, needs to look to the humanities—to philosophy, theology, sociology, history, and cultural studies—for accompanying critical perspectives.
Oluf Langhelle discusses expansion of the Rawlsian framework of global justice in relation to sustainable development.