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"We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the US and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does the moment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice packed, with cautiously hopeful stories of struggle for the future that we need now"--

Cover -- SUSTAINABILITY -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. INTERDISCIPLINARITY, PLACE, AND PRAXIS -- 1. Situating Sustainability from an Ecological Science Perspective: Ecosystem Services, Resilience, and Environmental Justice -- 2. Situating New Constellations of Practice in the Humanities: Toward a Just and Sustainable Future -- 3. Situating Sustainability against Displacement: Building Campus-Community Collaboratives for Environmental Justice from the Ground Up -- 4. Situating Global Policies within Local Realities: Climate Conflict from California to Latin America -- 5. Situating Urban Drought Resilience: Theory, Practice and Sustainability Science -- PART II. POSITIONALITY, POWER, AND SITUATED SUSTAINABILITIES -- 6. Indigenous Lessons about Sustainability Are Not Just for "All Humanity" -- 7. Situating Sustainability in the Luxury City: Toward a Critical Urban Research Agenda -- 8. Man Destroys Nature?: Gender, History, and the Feminist Praxis of Situating Sustainability -- 9. I Tano' i Chamorro/Chamorro Land: Situating Sustainabilities through Spatial Justice and Cultural Perpetuation -- 10. Equality in the Air We Breathe: Police Violence, Pollution, and the Politics of Sustainability -- Afterword: From More than Just Sustainability to a More Just Resilience -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice? This volume tackles these questions, placing social justice and interdisciplinary approaches at the center of efforts for a more sustainable world. Contributors present empirical case studies that illustrate how sustainability can take place without contributing to social inequality. From indigenous land rights, climate conflict, militarization, and urban drought resilience, the book offers examples of ways in which sustainability and social justice strengthen one another. Through an understanding of history, diverse cultural traditions, and complexity in relation to race, class, and gender, this volume demonstrates ways in which sustainability can help to shape better and more robust solutions to the world's most pressing problems. Blending methods from the humanities, environmental sciences, and the humanistic social sciences, this book offers an essential guide for the next generation of global citizens. -- From back cover.

The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs involved. Fantasy Islands probes Chinese, European, and American eco-desire and eco-technological dreams, and examines the solutions they offer to environmental degradation in this age of global economic change. Uncovering the stories of sites in China, including the plan for a new eco-city called Dongtan on the island of Chongming, mega-suburbs, and the Shanghai World Expo, Julie Sze explores the flows, fears, and fantasies of Pacific Rim politics that shaped them. She charts how climate change discussions align with US fears of China's ascendancy and the related demise of the American Century, and she considers the motives of financial and political capital for eco-city and ecological development supported by elite power structures in the UK and China. Fantasy Islands shows how ineffectual these efforts are while challenging us to see what a true eco-city would be

This article examines a contemporary and unfolding conflict in downtown Brooklyn in New York City where the siting of a professional sport stadium intersects with the politics of race, class, and the built environment. The Atlantic Yards project is a $4.2-billion project to bring housing, retail, open space, and most significantly (for the developers in their public relations campaign), a professional basketball franchise, the Brooklyn Nets. The author uses an analytic frame drawing from environmental justice studies through which to analyze the cultural and representational politics of the controversy. In doing so, this case complicates and further illuminates environmental justice and the sports and siting literature in the context of the geography of neoliberalism.