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'This book can be a guide for regulators as they make decisions
about issues such as affordability and access to special programs
that may have been deprived of the attention they merit in the
past.' - Ashley Brown, Harvard University, US Energy Justice: US
and International Perspectives is a pioneering analysis of energy
law and policy through the framework of energy justice. While
climate change has triggered unprecedented investment in renewable
energy, the concept of energy justice and its practical application
to energy law and policy remain under-theorized. This volume breaks
new ground by examining a range of energy justice regulatory
challenges from the perspective of international law, US law, and
foreign domestic law. The book illuminates the theory of energy
justice while emphasizing practical solutions that hasten the
transition from fossil fuels and address the inequities that plague
energy systems. Among the first edited volumes to focus wholly on
the emerging field of energy justice, this book takes a
multidisciplinary approach that examines energy law and policy
through the lens of environmental justice, climate justice,
indigenous rights, human rights, and energy democracy.
Contributions from prominent scholars and practitioners demonstrate
how energy justice frameworks can be applied in theory and
practice. With a foreword by Dr Robert Bullard, Energy Justice is a
critical resource for: law students and professors; researchers,
students and faculty of graduate and undergraduate courses in the
area of energy and the environment; and advocates and policymakers
in the area of energy and the environment. Contributors include:
S.H. Baker, A. Brown, R. Bullard, R. Colton, M. Dworkin, S. Foster,
C.G. Gonzalez, E.A. Kronk Warner, D.S. Olawuyi, O. Outka, R.
Salter, C. Sandoval, D.N. Scott, A.A. Smith, P. Sheppard, E. Stein,
J. Wolfley
Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development
Goals, environmental justice struggles are growing all over the
world. These struggles are not isolated injustices, but symptoms of
interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the few while
inflicting misery on the many and threatening ecological collapse.
This handbook offers critical perspectives on the
multi-dimensional, intersectional nature of environmental injustice
and the cross-cutting forms of oppression that unite and divide
these struggles, including gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity.
The work sheds new light on the often-neglected social dimension of
sustainability and its relationship to human rights and
environmental justice. Using a variety of legal frameworks and case
studies from around the world, this volume illustrates the
importance of overcoming the fragmentation of these legal
frameworks and social movements in order to develop holistic
solutions that promote justice and protect the planet's ecosystems
at a time of intensifying economic and ecological crisis.
Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development
Goals, environmental justice struggles are growing all over the
world. These struggles are not isolated injustices, but symptoms of
interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the few while
inflicting misery on the many and threatening ecological collapse.
This handbook offers critical perspectives on the
multi-dimensional, intersectional nature of environmental injustice
and the cross-cutting forms of oppression that unite and divide
these struggles, including gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity.
The work sheds new light on the often-neglected social dimension of
sustainability and its relationship to human rights and
environmental justice. Using a variety of legal frameworks and case
studies from around the world, this volume illustrates the
importance of overcoming the fragmentation of these legal
frameworks and social movements in order to develop holistic
solutions that promote justice and protect the planet's ecosystems
at a time of intensifying economic and ecological crisis.
The unprecedented degradation of the planet's vital ecosystems is
among the most pressing issues confronting the international
community. Despite the proliferation of legal instruments to combat
environmental problems, conflicts between rich and poor nations
(the North-South divide) have compromised international
environmental law, leading to deadlocks in environmental treaty
negotiations and noncompliance with existing agreements. This
volume examines both the historical origins of the North-South
divide in European colonialism as well as its contemporary
manifestations in a range of issues including food justice, energy
justice, indigenous rights, trade, investment, extractive
industries, human rights, land grabs, hazardous waste, and climate
change. Born out of the recognition that global inequality and
profligate consumerism present threats to a sustainable planet,
this book makes a unique contribution to international
environmental law by emphasizing the priorities and perspectives of
the global South.
The unprecedented degradation of the planet's vital ecosystems is
among the most pressing issues confronting the international
community. Despite the proliferation of legal instruments to combat
environmental problems, conflicts between rich and poor nations
(the North-South divide) have compromised international
environmental law, leading to deadlocks in environmental treaty
negotiations and noncompliance with existing agreements. This
volume examines both the historical origins of the North-South
divide in European colonialism as well as its contemporary
manifestations in a range of issues including food justice, energy
justice, indigenous rights, trade, investment, extractive
industries, human rights, land grabs, hazardous waste, and climate
change. Born out of the recognition that global inequality and
profligate consumerism present threats to a sustainable planet,
this book makes a unique contribution to international
environmental law by emphasizing the priorities and perspectives of
the global South.
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