Key Readings

Publications are listed under sub headings in alphabetical order.

[this page is being updated and added to. it will in due course reflect a wider international literature on environmental justice. sorry about the haphazard formatting!]

Sub Headings

Books on EJ
UK Reports and Pamphlets
UK Journal Papers



Books on Environmental Justice

Ageyman J (2005) Sustainable Communities and the challenge of environmental justice (New York, New York University Press)

Agyeman J, Bullard R and Evans B (2003) Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Earthscan, London)

Bullard R (1990) Dumping on Dixie: race, class and environmental quality, Boulder, Colorado. Westview Press

Camancho D E (ed)  1998  Environmental injustices, political struggles: race, class and the environment, (Duke University Press, Durham and London)  

Dobson A (1998) Justice and the Environment: Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Dimensions of Social Justice (Oxford, Oxford University Press)

Dunion K, (2003) Trouble Makers. The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Scotland. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

Fabian Globalisation Group (2005) Just World: a fabian manifesto, (Zed Books, London) 

Foley J, ed (2004) Sustainability and Social Justice. (London: Institute of Public Policy Research)  

Foreman C (1998) The Promise and Perils of Environmental Justice (Brooking Institution Press, Washington DC)

Harvey, D (1996) Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference (Oxford,  Blackwell).   

Liu F (2001)  Environmental Justice Analysis: Theories, Methods and Practice, (CRC Press)

Low, N. and Gleeson, B. (1998) Justice, Society and Nature: an exploration of political ecology (London, Routledge) 

Scholsberg D (2002) Environmental justice and the new pluralism (Oxford, OUP)

Scholsberg D (2007) Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements and Nature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Shrader Frechette K (2002) Environmental Justice: creating equality and reclaiming democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press 

Visgilio G R and Whitelaw D M (eds) Our Backyard, a quest for environmental justice (Lanham, Rowman and Littefield)

Wenz P (1988) Environmental Justice, Albany NY: Suny Press

 

UK Reports and Pamphlets

Boardman B, Bullock S, McLaren D, 1999 Equity and the environment, Catalyst Trust, London

Catalyst and FoE, 2000 Equity and the environment: guidelines for green and socially just government, Catalyst/Foe, London

Countryside Agency (2004) Diversity Review. http://www.countryside.gov.uk/WiderWelcome/DiversityReview/index.asp

Environment Agency, 2002 The urban environment in England and Wales: a detailed assessment, The Environment Agency

Fairburn J, Walker G and Smith G (2005) Investigating Environmental Justice in Scotland - Links Between Measures of Environmental Quality and Social Deprivation Report UE4(03)01, Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, Edinburgh. FULL REPORT

Forestry Commission (2002) Local open space and social inclusion: local woodland use in central Scotland.

Friends of the Earth, 2000 Pollution injustice, www.foe.co.uk/pollution-injustice/ Friends of the Earth

Jacobs M, 1999 Environmental modernisation: the New Labour agenda, Pamphlet 591, Fabian Society, London

King K, Stedman J, 2000 Analysis of Air pollution and social deprivation, Report AEAT/R/ENV/0241 AEA Technology Environment

London Sustainability Exchange, 2004, Environmental justice in London-linking the equalities and environment policy agendas. cpf. pp32 Click here >>

Lucas, K., Walker, G., Eames, M. Fay, H. and Poustie, M. (2004) Environmental, Health and Social Justice Review. Report for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Pye S, Stedman J, Adams M, King K, (2001) Further analysis of NO2 and PM10 air pollution and social deprivation, A report produced for DEFRA, The National Assembly for Wales and The Northern Ireland Department of the Environment. Report AEAT/ENV/R/0865 AEA Technology Environment

Stephens C, Bullock S and Scott A, 2001 Environmental justice: rights and means to a healthy environment for all, Special Briefing Paper 7, ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme

Stephens C, Ruth Willis and Gordon Walker (2007) Addressing Environmental Inequalities: Cumulative Environmental Impacts, Science Report: SC020061/SR4, Environment Agency

Walker G P, 1998 Environmental justice and the politics of risk, Town and Country Planning, 67, 11, 358-359 Click here >>

Walker G, Fairburn J, Smith G, Mitchell G (2003) Environmental quality and social deprivation, R&D Technical Report E2-067/1/TR. Environment Agency.

Walker, G., Fay, H., and Mitchell, G. (2004) Environmental Justice Impact Assessment: An evaluation of requirements and tools for distributional analysis. Report for Friends of the Earth.

Walker G, Kate Burningham, Jane Fielding, Graham Smith, Diana Thrush and Helen Fay (2006) Addressing Environmental Inequalities: Flood Risk, Science Report: SC020061/SR1, Environment Agency

Worpole K (2000) In our backyard: the social promise of environmentalism, Green Alliance, London

 

UK Journal Papers

Agyeman J, 1987 Black people in a white landscape: social and environmental justice, Built Environment, 16, 3, 232-236

Agyeman J (2003) Constructing environmental injustice: transatlantic tales, Environmental Politics, 11 (3), 31-53

Bickerstaff K and Walker G P (2003) The place(s) of matter: matter out of place – public understandings of air pollution, Progress in Human Geography, 27 (1), pp 45-67;

Brainard J S, Jones A P, Bateman I J, Lovett A A, Fallon P J (2002) Modelling environmental equity: access to air quality in Birmingham, UK, Environment and Planning A, 34, 695-716

Brainard J S, Jones A P, Bateman I J and Lovett A, 2003 Modelling environmental equity: exposure to environmental urban noise pollution in Birmingham, UK, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, Working Paper EDM 03-04, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Buckingham Hatfield S, Reeves D and Batchelor A (2005) Wasting women: the environmental justice of including women in municipal waste management, Local Environment, Vol 10, no 4, pp

Bulkeley, Harriet and Walker, Gordon P (2005) Environmental Justice: A New Agenda for the UK. Local Environment, 10 (4). pp. 329-332. [Editorial for special issue on Environmental Justice in the UK]

Bush J, Moffatt S and Dunn C (2001) Even the birds around here cough: stigma, air pollution and health in Teesside, Health and Place, 7, 47-56

Chalmers H and Colvin J (2005) Addressing environmental inequalities in UK policy: An action research perspective Local Environment, Vol 10, no 4, pp 333-360

Dietz S and Atkinson G (2005) Public perceptions of equity in environmental policy: traffic emissions policy in an English urban area, Local Environment, Vol 10, no 4, pp 445-459

Fielding J and Burningham K (2005) Environmental inequality and flood hazard, Local Environment, Vol 10, no 4, pp 379-395

Howel D, Moffatt S, Bush J, Dunn CE and Prince H (2003) Public views on the links between air pollution and health in Northeast England, Environmental Research, 91, pp 163-171

McLeod H, Langford I H, Jones A P, Stedman J R, Day J R, Lorenzoni I and Bateman I J, (2000) The relationship between socio-economic indicators and air pollution in England and Wales: implications for environmental justice, Regional Environmental Change, 12, 78-85

Mitchell G, (In press) The Response of Urban Air Quality to Strategic Road Transport Initiatives: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Leeds, UK, Transportation Research D

Mitchell G and Dorling D, (2003) An Environmental Justice Analysis of British Air Quality, Environment and Planning A, 35, 909-929

Petts J (2005) Enhancing environmental equity through decision making: learning from waste management, Local Environment, Vol 10, no 4, pp397-409

Walker G (2007) Environmental justice and the distributional deficit in policy appraisal in the UK, Environmental Research Letters, 2, 045004

Walker, Gordon P and Bulkeley, Harriet (2006) Geographies of Environmental Justice. Geoforum, 37 (5). pp. 655-659.
[Editorial for special issue on Geographies of Environmental Justice]

Walker G P, Mitchell G, Fairburn J and Smith G (2005) Industrial pollution and social deprivation: evidence and complexity in evaluating and responding to environmental inequality, Local Environment, Vol 10, no 4, pp 361-377

Watson M and Bulkeley H (2005) Just waste? Municipal waste management and the politics of environmental justice, Local Environment, Vol 10, no 4, pp 411-426

Wheeler B (2004) Health-related environmental indices and environmental equity in England and Wales, Environment and Planning A, 36, pp 803-822

 

 

 

 

 

 

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