Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice write by Nik Janos. This book was released on 2021-10-26. Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Portland’s harbor, environmental justice groups challenge the EPA for a more thorough cleanup of the Willamette River. Near Olympia, the Puyallup assert their tribal sovereignty and treaty rights to fish. Seattle housing activists demand that Amazon pay to address the affordability crisis it helped create. Urban Cascadia, the infrastructure, social networks, built environments, and non-human animals and plants that are interconnected in the increasingly urbanized bioregion that surrounds Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, enjoys a reputation for progressive ambitions and forward-thinking green urbanism. Yet legacies of settler colonialism and environmental inequalities contradict these ambitions, even as people strive to achieve those progressive ideals. In this edited volume, historians, geographers, urbanists, and other scholars critically examine these contradictions to better understand the capitalist urbanization of nature, the creation of social and environmental inequalities, and the movements to fight for social and environmental justice. Neither a story of green disillusion nor one of green boosterism, Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice reveals how the region can address broader issues of environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and the politics of environmental change.
Green City Rising
Green City Rising - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Green City Rising write by Erin Goodling. This book was released on 2024-05-15. Green City Rising available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Green City Rising is an ethnographic account of collective organizing for environmental justice in an era of growing concern about environmental and climate challenges. The conventional sustainability paradigm promises improved environmental conditions for all, such as fresh air and clean water, walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, green space access, and protection from climate crises. Yet, without particular interventions, the pursuit of such environmental amenities often contributes to displacement and further harm for communities that have historically borne the brunt of land theft, racial capitalism, and toxic industries. Drawing on the work of an alliance of grassroots organizations called the Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC), Erin Goodling shows how communities have come together across lines of race and class to work for a more just, green future in Portland, Oregon. Green City Rising reveals that the violence of settler colonialism and white supremacy are far from endpoints: a collective vision for a better future is emerging, and ordinary people are building the understanding, skills, and relationships necessary to usher it in.
Environmental Justice, Urban Revitalization, and Brownfields
Environmental Justice, Urban Revitalization, and Brownfields - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environmental Justice, Urban Revitalization, and Brownfields write by National Environmental Justice Advisory. This book was released on 2013-11. Environmental Justice, Urban Revitalization, and Brownfields available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The vision of environmental justice is the development of a holistic, bottom up, community-based, multi-issue, cross-cutting, integrative, and unifying paradigm for achieving health and sustainable communities- both urban and rural.
Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City
Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City write by Beth Schaefer Caniglia. This book was released on 2016-12-08. Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban centres are bastions of inequalities, where poverty, marginalization, segregation and health insecurity are magnified. Minorities and the poor – often residing in neighbourhoods characterized by degraded infrastructures, food and job insecurity, limited access to transport and health care, and other inadequate public services – are inherently vulnerable, especially at risk in times of shock or change as they lack the option to avoid, mitigate and adapt to threats. Offering both theoretical and practical approaches, this book proposes critical perspectives and an interdisciplinary lens on urban inequalities in light of individual, group, community and system vulnerabilities and resilience. Touching upon current research trends in food justice, environmental injustice through socio-spatial tactics and solution-based approaches towards urban community resilience, Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City promotes perspectives which transition away from the traditional discussions surrounding environmental justice and pinpoints the need to address urban social inequalities beyond the build environment, championing approaches that help embed social vulnerabilities and resilience in urban planning. With its methodological and dynamic approach to the intertwined nature of resilience and environmental justice in urban cities, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners within urban studies, environmental management, environmental sociology and public administration.
Bridging Silos
Bridging Silos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bridging Silos write by Katrina Smith Korfmacher. This book was released on 2019-08-27. Bridging Silos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities; with case studies from Rochester, New York; Duluth, Minnesota; and Southern California. Low-income and marginalized urban communities often suffer disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards, leaving residents vulnerable to associated health problems. Community groups, academics, environmental justice advocates, government agencies, and others have worked to address these issues, building coalitions at the local level to change the policies and systems that create environmental health inequities. In Bridging Silos, Katrina Smith Korfmacher examines ways that communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities, with in-depth studies of three efforts to address long-standing environmental health issues: childhood lead poisoning in Rochester, New York; unhealthy built environments in Duluth, Minnesota; and pollution related to commercial ports and international trade in Southern California. All three efforts were locally initiated, driven by local stakeholders, and each addressed issues long known to the community by reframing an old problem in a new way. These local efforts leveraged resources to impact community change by focusing on inequities in environmental health, bringing diverse kinds of knowledge to bear, and forging new connections among existing community, academic, and government groups. Korfmacher explains how the once integrated environmental and public health management systems had become separated into self-contained “silos,” and compares current efforts to bridge these separations to the development of ecosystem management in the 1990s. Community groups, government agencies, academic institutions, and private institutions each have a role to play, but collaborating effectively requires stakeholders to appreciate their partners' diverse incentives, capacities, and constraints.
