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Environmental justice, sustainability and vulnerability
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In this paper, the authors argue that sustainability research and practice can benefit from a closer reading of environmental justice scholarship and that environmental justice can draw on sustainability principles of systems thinking, anticipatory action and environmental stewardship to strengthen its methods and approaches.Abstract:
Justice is a core yet often ignored principle of sustainability. However, sustainability for some at the expense of others undermines the principles and practice of sustainability as a force for positive change. In this commentary, I argue that sustainability research and practice can benefit from a closer reading of environmental justice scholarship. At the same time, environmental justice can draw on sustainability principles of systems thinking, anticipatory action and environmental stewardship to strengthen its methods and approaches while broadening its constituency. Vulnerability science can bridge environmental justice and sustainability and can also benefit from the convergence of ideas, principles and practices of these fields.read more
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Justice and the Politics of Difference
TL;DR: Young as mentioned in this paper argues that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group difference, and argues for a principle of group representation in democratic publics and for group-differentiated policies.
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Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems
TL;DR: The concept of resilience has evolved considerably since Holling's (1973) seminal paper as discussed by the authors and different interpretations of what is meant by resilience, however, cause confusion, and it can be counterproductive to seek definitions that are too narrow.
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A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science
Billie Turner,Roger E. Kasperson,Roger E. Kasperson,Pamela A. Matson,James J. McCarthy,Robert W. Corell,Lindsey Christensen,Noelle Eckley,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Amy Luers,Marybeth L. Martello,Colin Polsky,Colin Polsky,Alexander Pulsipher,Andrew Schiller +15 more
TL;DR: A vulnerability framework for the assessment of coupled human–environment systems is presented and it is shown that vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone but also resides in the sensitivity and resilience of the system experiencing such hazards.
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Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
TL;DR: In this article, the Dialectics of Discourse are used to describe the relationship between social and environmental change, and a Cautionary Tale on Internal Relations is presented. But it does not address the effect of environmental change on social relations.
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Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California
TL;DR: The authors argue that although racism is rarely explicitly discussed, a normative conceptualization of racism informs the research and that this prevailing conception overly narrow and restrictive, it also denies the spatiality of racism.
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