Working-Class Environmentalism
An Agenda for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainability
Authors: Bell, Karen
- Presents solutions for developing green transitions which benefit, include and respect working-class people
- Argues that working class people tend to carry the environmental burdens for society; are excluded from and alienated by traditional forms of environmentalism; are sometimes negatively impacted by environmental policy; are, and continue to be, environmentalists
- Challenges current practice, policy and thinking by highlighting how discriminatory and undermining actions and attitudes towards working-class people are preventing the attainment of sustainability
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Karen Bell is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environment at the University of West England, UK.
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Working-Class Environmentalism
- Book Subtitle
- An Agenda for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainability
- Authors
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- Karen Bell
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-29519-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-29519-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-29518-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 294
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
