Environmental Justice and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 69229
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental politics; environmental policy; environmental gentrification; environmental governance; environmental justice
Interests: environmental politics; social movements; statistics
Interests: global media; media and the environment; documentary media; media and social justice; ethnographic method; Latin American media and cultural theory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites critical cross-disciplinary examination of environmental justice’s dilemmas for sustainability from geographers, political scientists, sociologists, media and communication scholars, urban planners, and experts from other fields. Many portray sustainability as a harmonious nexus of ecology, economy, and equity popularized with a Venn diagram of three overlapping spheres. Others advocate a fashionable triple-bottom line for business. Urban leaders continue to pursue urban greening strategies to improve livability and redress inequities. However, a growing body of work sees more contradiction, dissonance, and discord than progress in many sustainability efforts. Some scholars even offer alternative and radical visions of environmental stewardship.
While metropolitan leaders embraced sustainability over the last three decades, urban geographies became more divided by race, class, and pollution. The political power asymmetries driving these patterns are also often obscured in sustainability scholarship. Increasingly, studies document how environmental projects ranging from environmental remediation to green space creation either fail to deliver benefits equitably or result in unintended and negative consequences for the most vulnerable populations. Yet, sustainability scholarship still pays too little attention to the ways sustainability policies and movements interact with socioeconomic, political, and historical processes in the production of more or less equitable cities.
In this Special Issue, we seek contributions examining how sustainability strategies intersect with or obscure racial inequalities, social hierarchies, environmental rights, housing segregation, and deindustrialization’s production of new spaces of advantage and disadvantage. We welcome a variety of theoretical perspectives, research methods, and case studies that help to uncover the contradictions of sustainability for environmental justice. We solicit contributions for this project that pay attention to questions of distributive justice, procedural justice, and social justice for sustainability.
Prof. Troy D. Abel
Prof. Debra J. Salazar
Prof. Patrick D. Murphy
Jonah White, MS
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Environmental Justice
- Critical Sustainabilities
- Environmental Politics
- Media and the Environment
- Urban Development
- Social Justice
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