"Justice and Natural Resources"
Steven Luper-Foy offers a defence of the resource equity principle from both points of view, the libertarian and the Rawlsian.
environmental justice
Climate Justice
About this issue
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.
Content
Environment, Power and Injustice: A South African History
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa.
Episode 4: "Environmental Justice on the Hamilton Waterfront"
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.
To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
“Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities”
The Editorial Team offers an introduction to the journal Environmental Humanities.
Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature
By looking at works by Native Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and others, and by considering forms of literature beyond the traditional nature essay, Myers expands our conceptions of environmental writing and environmental justice.
Aiken, Katherine, Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of A Great Mining Company, 1885-1981
Katherine G. Aiken traces Bunker Hill’s evolution from the mine’s discovery in 1885 to the company’s closure in 1981.
Just Ecological Integrity: The Ethics of Maintaining Planetary Life
Just Ecological Integrity presents a collection of revised and expanded essays originating from the international conference “Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity, and Health in the New Millennium,” held in San Jose, Costa Rica in June 2000.
Conservation Trusts
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.