Description
Book SynopsisThis book showcases the work of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars who uphold environmental justice as the path to a more just, equitable, and sustainable Canada.
Trade ReviewThis collection is the first major examination of the multidimensionality of environmental equity and injustice in Canada. It should appeal to scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the social and environmental sciences, to activists, and to citizens who want to make Canadian society more just and sustainable.
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Authors and editors are to be commended for bringing together several areas of inquiry, including environmental sociology, First Nations politics, race and ethnicity, urban sociology, rural sociology, and social movements. The collection will prove valuable to a broad range of students and researchers. -- Mark C. J. Stoddart * Canadian Journal of Sociology 35 (3) *
Table of ContentsPrologue: Notes from Prison – Protecting Algonquin Lands from Uranium Mining / Robert Lovelace
Introduction: Speaking for Ourselves, Speaking Together – Environmental Justice in Canada / Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O’Riley, Peter Cole, and Julian Agyeman
1 Honouring Our Relations: An Anishnaabe Perspective on Environmental Justice / Deborah McGregor
2 Reclaiming Ktaqamkuk: Land and Mi’kmaq Identity in Newfoundland / Bonita Lawrence
3 Why Is There No Environmental Justice in Toronto? Or Is There? / Roger Keil, Melissa Ollevier, and Erica Tsang
4 Invisible Sisters: Women and Environmental Justice in Canada / Barbara Rahder
5 The Political Economy of Environmental Inequality: The Social Distribution of Risk as an Environmental Injustice/ S. Harris Ali
6 These Are Lubicon Lands: A First Nation Forced to Step into the Regulatory Gap / Chief Bernard Ominayak, with Kevin Thomas
7 Population Health, Environmental Justice, and the Distribution of Diseases: Ideas and Practices from Canada / John Eyles
8 Environmental Injustice in the Canadian Far North: Persistent Organic Pollutants and Arctic Climate Impacts / Sarah Fleisher Trainor, Anna Godduhn, Lawrence K. Duffy, F. Stuart Chapin III, David C. Natcher, Gary Kofinas, and Henry P. Huntington
9 Environmental Justice and Community-Based Ecosystem Management / Maureen G. Reed
10 Framing Environmental Inequity in Canada: A Content Analysis of Daily Print News Media / Leith Deacon and Jamie Baxter
11 Environmental Justice as a Politics in Place: An Analysis of Five Canadian Environmental Groups’ Approaches to Agro-Food Issues / Lorelei L. Hanson
12 Rethinking "Green" Multicultural Strategies / Beenash Jafri
13 Coyote and Raven Talk about Environmental Justice / Pat O’Riley and Peter Cole
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