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This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice
to explore and question common assumptions around what urban
sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is
manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on claims
of sustainability. Aligned with critical environmental justice
studies, the book highlights the contradictions of urban
sustainability in relation to justice. It argues that urban
neighbourhoods cannot be greener, more sustainable and liveable
unless their communities are strengthened by the protection of the
right to housing, public space, infrastructure and healthy
amenities. Linked to the individual drivers, ten short empirical
case studies from across Europe and North America provide a
systematic analysis of research, policy and practice conducted
under urban sustainability agendas in cities such as Barcelona,
Glasgow, Athens, Boston and Montreal, and show how social and
environmental justice is, or is not, being taken into account. By
doing so, the book uncovers the risks of continuing urban
sustainability agendas while ignoring, and therefore perpetuating,
systemic drivers of inequity and injustice operating within and
outside of the city. Accessibly written for students in urban
studies, critical geography and planning, this is a useful and
analytical synthesis of issues relating to urban sustainability,
environmental and social justice. The Open Access version of this
book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003221425, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license. Funded by Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona
This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political
ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the
field. In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book
engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the
multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being
Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years.
The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and
extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and
community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective
learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research
and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO
transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local
communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The
book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and
outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing
reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary
geographical contours of power.
This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political
ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the
field. In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book
engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the
multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being
Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years.
The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and
extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and
community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective
learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research
and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO
transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local
communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The
book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and
outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing
reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary
geographical contours of power.
This study examines the cultural, social, environmental and
political factors that shape the spread of diarrhoea. The case of
Vietnam's Mekong Delta shows why the spread of disease is not
merely an epidemiological problem, but an institutional one. Social
inequalities, the dominance of central-state led discourse and the
lack of participatory health education all contribute to a
persistently high incidence of disease. This research calls for a
re-politicization and contextualization of public health problems,
in order to better understand why they occur and therefore be able
to prevent them. Panagiota Kotsila is a researcher at the Institute
of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous
University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain.
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