Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices (Urban and Industrial Environments) - Hardcover

9780262015516: Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026201551X ISBN 13: 9780262015516

Verlag: MIT Press, 2011

Multinational corporations often exploit natural resources or locate factories inpoor countries far from the demand for the products and profits that result. Developed countriesalso routinely dump hazardous materials and produce greenhouse gas emissions that have adisproportionate impact on developing countries. This book investigates how these and otherglobalized practices exact high social and environmental costs as poor, local communities are forcedto cope with depleted resources, pollution, health problems, and social and cultural disruption.Case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America critically assess howdiverse types of global inequalities play out on local terrains. These range from an assessment ofthe pros and cons of foreign investment in Fiji to an account of the work of transnational activistscombating toxic waste disposal in Mozambique. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate the spatialdisconnect between global consumption and production on the one hand and local environmental qualityand human rights on the other. The result is a rich perspective not only on the ways industries,governments, and consumption patterns may further entrench existing inequalities but also on howemerging networks and movements can foster institutional change and promote social equality andenvironmental justice.

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�ber die Autorinnen und Autoren

JoAnn Carmin is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.

Julian Agyeman is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is the coauthor of Sharing Cities and the coeditor of The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America, each published by the MIT Press.

Isabelle Anguelovski is Marie Curie Fellow and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Universitat Aut� noma de Barcelona.

Saleem H. Ali is Associate Professor of Environmental Planning at the Rubenstein School of Natural Resources at the University of Vermont and holds adjunct faculty appointments at Brown University and the United Nations mandated University for Peace. He is the author of Mining: The Environment and Indigenous Development Conflicts.

Tammy L. Lewis is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York/Brooklyn College and Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center in Sociology and Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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