Urban Sustainability and Justice : Just Sustainabilities and Environmental Planning PDF

by Vanesa Castan (University of Sheffield, UK) Broto, Linda (University of Sheffield, UK) Westman

Part of the Just Sustainabilities series

PDF

Download - Immediately Available

Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

Urban Sustainability and JusticeÂ presents aninnovative yet practical approach to incorporate equity and social justice intosustainable development in urban areas, in line with the commitments of the UNâ€™sSustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.

This work proposes afeminist reading of just sustainabilities' principles to reclaim sustainabilityas a progressive discourse which informs action on the ground.

This work will help the committedactivist (whether they are on the ground, working in a community, in a non-governmentalorganization (NGO), in a business, at a university, in any sphere ingovernment) to connect their work to international efforts to deliver environmentaljustice in cities around the world. Drawingon a comparative, international analysis of sustainability initiatives in over200 cities, CastÃ¡n Broto and Westman find limited evidence of theimplementation of just sustainabilities principles in practice, but they arguethat there is considerable potential to develop a justice-orientedsustainability agenda.

Highlighting current successes while also assessingprospects for the future, the authors show that just sustainabilities is not merelyan aspirational discourse, but a frame of reference to support radical actionon the ground.