Urban Sustainability and Justice (eBook)

Just Sustainabilities and Environmental Planning

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

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2019
208 Seiten
Zed Books (Verlag)
978-1-78699-495-0 (ISBN)

Infos

An assessment of sustainability initiatives in over 200 cities offering a practical approach to just sustainability as a framework for urban development

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Urban Sustainability and Justice presents an innovative yet practical approach to incorporate equity and social justice into sustainable development in urban areas, in line with the commitments of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. This open access work proposes a feminist reading of just sustainabilities' principles to reclaim sustainability as a progressive discourse which informs action on the ground. This work will help the committed activist (whether they are on the ground, working in a community, in a non-governmental organization (NGO), in a business, at a university, in any sphere in government) to connect their work to international efforts to deliver environmental justice in cities around the world.Drawing on a comparative, international analysis of sustainability initiatives in over 200 cities, Cast n Broto and Westman find limited evidence of the implementation of just sustainabilities principles in practice, but they argue that there is considerable potential to develop a justice-oriented sustainability agenda. Highlighting current successes while also assessing prospects for the future, the authors show that just sustainabilities is not merely an aspirational discourse, but a frame of reference to support radical action on the ground.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Sheffield.

Autor

lt;p>Vanesa Castán Broto is a professorial fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, and chair of the research group on Climate Urbanism. She leads the European Research Council project Low Carbon Action in Ordinary Cities. Vanesa’s last book is Urban Energy Landscapes (2019). She is a Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a chapter author for UN-Habitat’s 2020 World Cities Report.

Linda Westman is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, whose work engages with the governance of sustainability and climate change, urban sustainability transformations, and justice.

Inhalt

• 1. Introduction 
• 2. The appropriation of sustainability values       
• 3. The challenge of emancipatory sustainability thought
• 4. Planning for Just Sustainabilities         
• 5. Improving wellbeing and quality of life             
• 6. Meeting the needs of present and future generations             
• 7. Justice and equity in recognition, process, participation and
  outcome
• 8. Ecosystem Limits
• 9. Conclusion   

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: An Urban Politics of Climate Change • Habitat III • Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable • New Urban Agenda • Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development • sustainability • Sustainable Development Goal 11
• ISBN-10: 1-78699-495-X / 178699495X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78699-495-0 / 9781786994950