Working-class environmentalism : an agenda for a just and fair transition to sustainability

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    • Bell, Karen (Karen Sarah)

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Working-class environmentalism : an agenda for a just and fair transition to sustainability

Karen Bell

Palgrave Macmillan, c2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-282) and index

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This book presents a timely perspective that puts working-class people at the forefront of achieving sustainability. Bell argues that environmentalism is a class issue, and confronts some current practice, policy and research that is preventing the attainment of sustainability and a healthy environment for all. She combines two of the biggest challenges facing humanity: that millions of people around the world still do not have their social and environmental needs met (including healthy food, clean water, affordable energy, clean air); and that the earth's resources have been over-used or misused. Bell explores various solutions to these social and ecological crises and lays out an agenda for simultaneously achieving greater well-being, equality and sustainability. The result will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and policy-makers working to achieve environmental and social justice, as well as to students and scholars across social policy, sociology, human geography, and environmental studies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Environmental Classism.- 2. Class and Classism.- 3. Carrying the Environmental Burdens.- 4. The Environmental Policy Makers.- 5. The Environmental Policy Influencers.- 6. Working-Class Environmentalism.- 7. Explaining Environmental Classism?.- 8. Supporting Working-Class Environmentalism.

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