People experiencing homelessness have a particular vulnerability to environmental hazards, yet there is little attention paid to the issue of homelessness in environmental justice literature. The current study is a phenomenological inquiry into the experiences of environmental justice and injustice in a ...
Any relocation, not only that in the context of climate change, may lead to ‘loss of livelihoods, land and natural resources; food insecurity; homelessness; adverse health consequences; and economic and political marginalization’ (p. 702)70. Furthermore, poorly planned and forced relocations ...
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES) has long been characterized as Canada's skid row within public narratives that raise concerns about communicable diseases, open drug use, survival sex work, and homelessness. This stigmatizing gaze has bolstered a deficit-oriented philosophy that emphasizes meas...
Benjamin J. Pauli is Associate Professor of Social Science at the Department of Liberal Arts at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. He is the author ofFlint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis.
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of environmental justice. They would require (1) cumulative responsibility that focuses on holistic gains so that investment initiatives do not replace one harm with another; (2) embedded accountability that is rooted in the decision-making and concerns of directly impacted communities; and (3) coun...
Over the last 50 years, Bullfrog Films has become the leading US publisher of independently-produced documentaries on environmental and related social justice issues that point the way to living healthily, happily, and with greater concern for the other inhabitants of this planet, and for our desce...
in a fashion that accords with ecological and social justice–oriented calls for equitable distribution of resources (Hickel2021a,b;2021a, Klitgaard and Krall2012; Kallis et al.2012; Kallis2011). However, critics of degrowth assail it for what they see as a politics of austerity that shifts ...
Portrait of Haida artist, Robert Davidson, whose art and activism point the way towards a renewed connection with the natural world, perhaps saving us from ourselves. We Are The Radical Monarchs Follows the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice...
Clearly, the level of crime and violence are powerful indicators of social sustainability and an 'unsustainable' community is commonly characterized by notions of poverty, homelessness and increased levels of crime. Research also indicates that safety and security are primary and immediate concerns for...