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Sustainability and Justice

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2019) | Viewed by 38127

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Christopher Boone

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School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Interests: sustainability; sustainable urbanization; environmental justice; global environmental change; sustainability education

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability is a normative science, founded on the principles of justice and fairness within and between generations. However, the justice principles of sustainability are often subsumed or ignored in a variety of applications and uses. This Special Issue will explore ideas and examples of how sustainability and justice can be mutually supportive, providing plausible and desirable pathways for designing and implementing sustainable solutions to pressing challenges. Papers are welcome that use theoretical, methodological, or case study approaches to explore the interlinkages between sustainability and justice. Below are some possible themes for the Special Issue, but other contributions will be considered:

  • Environmental justice and sustainability
  • Climate justice and global politics
  • Indigenous rights and resource management
  • Gender and sustainable development
  • Using justice to scale (spatial and temporal) sustainability solutions
  • Sustainability and vulnerability
  • Social justice (race/ethnicity/class/immigration status) and sustainability
  • Justice and global environmental change
  • Global health, justice, and sustainability
  • Infusing justice into resilience
  • Ecological hazards and justice

Prof. Dr. Christopher G. Boone
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • environmental justice
  • ecological hazards
  • climate justice
  • resilience
  • social justice
  • vulnerability
  • global health
  • global environmental change
  • sustainable development

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The Intersection of Race, Immigration Status, and Environmental Justice
by David Pellow and Jasmine Vazin
Sustainability 2019, 11(14), 3942; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143942 - 19 Jul 2019
Cited by 19 | Viewed by 14946
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Environmental injustice occurs when marginalized groups face disproportionate environmental impacts from a range of threats. Environmental racism is a particular form of environmental injustice and frequently includes the implementation of policies, regulations, or institutional practices that target communities of color for undesirable waste [...] Read more.
Environmental injustice occurs when marginalized groups face disproportionate environmental impacts from a range of threats. Environmental racism is a particular form of environmental injustice and frequently includes the implementation of policies, regulations, or institutional practices that target communities of color for undesirable waste sites, zoning, and industry. One example of how the United States federal and state governments are currently practicing environmental racism is in the form of building and maintaining toxic prisons and immigrant detention prisons, where people of color and undocumented persons are the majority of inmates and detainees who suffer disproportionate health risk and harms. This article discusses the historical and contemporary conditions that have shaped the present political landscape of racial and immigration conflicts and considers those dynamics in the context of the literature on environmental justice. Case studies are then presented to highlight specific locations and instances that exemplify environmental injustice and racism in the carceral sector. The article concludes with an analysis of the current political drivers and motivations contributing to these risks and injustices, and ends with a discussion of the scale and depth of analysis required to alleviate these impacts in the future, which might contribute to greater sustainability among the communities affected. Full article
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Human Rights Pathways to Just Sustainabilities
by LaDawn Haglund
Sustainability 2019, 11(12), 3255; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123255 - 12 Jun 2019
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 4112
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Ecosystem disruptions pose a threat to us all, but are most acutely felt by the vulnerable: climate refugees, those experiencing water and food insecurity, or those displaced by pollution and ecosystem degradation. We struggle to find “solutions,” but they often pale in comparison [...] Read more.
Ecosystem disruptions pose a threat to us all, but are most acutely felt by the vulnerable: climate refugees, those experiencing water and food insecurity, or those displaced by pollution and ecosystem degradation. We struggle to find “solutions,” but they often pale in comparison to the risks we face. Collaborative approaches to sustainability that strive for balance between humans and nature are necessary but insufficient for addressing destabilizing trends. This paper argues that shifting the focus to destructive social relations and imbalances among humans unveils critical insights into to our destructive relationship with nature. A sociological view of human rights—in particular where they meet sustainability challenges—can sharpen this focus, providing guardrails within which to conceptualize, measure, and address systemic sociopolitical dimensions of sustainability challenges. The relative clarity of human rights (compared to the more amorphous “justice”), their increasing institutionalization in law and policy, and their broad legitimacy provides a structure to give “teeth” to transformational efforts stymied by inertia or unyielding power dynamics. Examples from original research and secondary literature demonstrate the utility of human rights as mechanisms of social transformation, setting boundaries for accountability and conflict resolution and laying the ground for building more just and sustainable futures. Full article
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Towards a Moral Compass to Guide Sustainability Transformations in a High-End Climate Change World
by Marco Grasso and J. David Tàbara
Sustainability 2019, 11(10), 2971; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11102971 - 24 May 2019
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High-end climate change (HECC) raises unprecedented challenges for the transformation of society’s governance arrangements. In such potentially dangerous situation, these challenges have profound moral—rather than only scientific, technical, or managerial—implications. Unfortunately, despite the growing recognition of the necessity for morally-grounded, urgent social-ecological reconfigurations [...] Read more.
High-end climate change (HECC) raises unprecedented challenges for the transformation of society’s governance arrangements. In such potentially dangerous situation, these challenges have profound moral—rather than only scientific, technical, or managerial—implications. Unfortunately, despite the growing recognition of the necessity for morally-grounded, urgent social-ecological reconfigurations in order to sustainably navigate the uncertain landscape derived from HECC, explicit moral guidance to support the transformation of governance arrangements is still lacking. This work, through the metaphor of a moral compass, proposes a normative tool to support an integrated assessment processes in order to confront the moral challenges and dilemmas in governance and thus favour sustainable transformations under conditions of HECC. Full article
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Examining the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Exposure to Carcinogenic Emissions in Gyeonggi of South Korea: A Multi-Level Analysis
by Jeong-Il Park and Hye-Seon Kwon
Sustainability 2019, 11(6), 1777; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061777 - 25 Mar 2019
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Although South Korea introduced the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register system in 1996, there is relatively limited evidence on how socioeconomic status at both individual and municipal levels is associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in Korea because of limited data sources. Using [...] Read more.
Although South Korea introduced the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register system in 1996, there is relatively limited evidence on how socioeconomic status at both individual and municipal levels is associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in Korea because of limited data sources. Using a multi-level negative binomial model, this study examined the socioeconomic status of both individuals and municipalities with a higher level of exposure to carcinogenic emissions from industrial facilities in Gyeonggi province, South Korea. The results reveal that economic minority individuals (national basic livelihood security recipients, unemployed people, and tenants), municipalities with higher percentages of industrial land use, and foreign-born populations had more facilities that produce carcinogenic emissions. While similar findings have been reported by many environmental justice studies conducted in other countries, this is the first Korean case study that reports the relationship between socioeconomic status at both individual and municipal levels and exposure to toxic chemicals. Full article
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