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Environmental justice in North America

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"Emphasizing the voices of activists, this book's diverse contributors examine communities' common experiences with environmental injustice, how they organize to address it, and the ways in which their campaigns intersect with related movements such as Black Lives Matters and Indigenous sovereignty. The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed the ways in which BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and white working-class communities have suffered disproportionately from the crisis due to sustained exposure to toxic land, air, and water, creating a new urgency for addressing underlying conditions of systemic racism and poverty in North America. In addition to exploring the historical roots of the Environmental Justice movement in the 1980s and 1990s, the volume offers coverage of recent events such as the DAPL pipeline controversy, the Flint water crisis, and the rise of climate justice. The collection incorporates the experiences of rural and urban communities, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, and Indigenous peoples in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The chapters offer instructors, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers a range of accessible case studies that create opportunities for comparative and intersectional analysis across geographical and ethnic boundaries"-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction / Paul C. Rosier -- Urban environmental justice movements in the United States / Rob Gioielli -- Resilience at the periphery : North America's non-urban environmental justice movements / Elizabeth Grennan Browning -- Intercultural alliances / Zoltán Grossman -- Environmental justice in Hawaiʻi and Oceania / Kyle Kajihiro -- Alaska Native environmental activism / Holly Miowak Guise -- Indigenous peoples in Canada and beyond : the Inuit Circumpolar Council's climate change advocacy work / Lydia Schoeppner -- Ecocide, ethnic rights, and extractivism : struggles for environmental justice in Mexico / Alessandro Morosin -- Plundered paradise : the Puerto Rican struggle against environmental colonialism / A.J. Hudson -- Indigenous environmental justice, renewable energy transition, and the infrastructure of sovereignty / Kyle Whyte -- The food justice movement / Justin Myers -- "We are missing our lessons to teach youoOne" : youth activists on the frontlines of climate justice / Jerusha Conner.

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:16:53.246223+00:00
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