Natural resources and environmental justice : Australian perspectives
2017
Book
Environmental management involves making decisions about the governance of natural resources such as water, minerals or land, which are inherently decisions about what is just or fair. Yet, there is little emphasis on justice in environmental management research or practical guidance on how to achieve fairness and equity in environmental governance and public policy. This results in social dilemmas that are significant issues for government, business and community agendas, causing conflict between different community interests. Natural Resources and Environmental Justice provides the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of justice research in Australian environmental management, identifying best practice and current knowledge gaps. With chapters written by experts in environmental and social sciences, law and economics, this book covers topical issues, including coal seam gas, desalination plants, community relations in mining, forestry negotiations, sea-level rise and animal rights. It also proposes a social justice framework and an agenda for future justice research in environmental management. These important environmental issues are covered from an Australian perspective and the book will be of broad use to policy makers, researchers and managers in natural resource management and governance, environmental law, social impact and related fields both in Australia and abroad.
Main title:
Natural resources and environmental justice : Australian perspectives / Anna Lukasiewicz, Stephen Dovers, Libby Robin, Jennifer McKay, Steven Schilizzi and Sonia Graham (editors).
Author:
Lukasiewicz, Anna, editorDovers, Stephen, editorRobin, Libby, 1956-, editorMcKay, J. M. (Jennifer M.), editorSchilizzi, Steven, editorGraham, Sonia, editorCSIRO (Australia), issuing body
Imprint:
Clayton, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2017.©2017.
Collation:
ix, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"This edited volume is an outcome of the 2015 'Justice, fairness and equity in natural resource management' workshop, funded by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and hosted by the Fenner School for Environment and Society at the Australian National University. Held on 12th and 13th October 2015 ..." --Acknowledgements, page v.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Environment and Justice: Defining the Field -- PART 1: CONTEXT AND CONCEPTS -- 2. A history of global ideas about environmental justice -- 3. Justice Research in Practice: How can it influence environmental policy and planning? -- 4. Justice approaches: methods and methodologies in environmental justice research -- PART 2: FROM THE GROUND UP -- 5Concept of public interest in the Adelaide Desalination Plant delivery: lessons for public policy makers on improving social justice -- 6. Company-community relations in the mining context: A relational justice perspective -- 7. Accounting for justice in local government responses to sea-level rise: evidence from two local councils in Victoria, Australia -- 8. Exploring the justice in forestry negotiations: trading justice for politics -- PART 3: LENSES INTO JUSTICE -- 9. Enduring and persistent injustices in water access in Australia -- 10. Animal property rights: justice or conservation? -- 11. Justice in water resource management -- 12. Legal determinations, geography and justice in Australia’s coal seam gas debate -- 13. The justice implications of focusing on the economically efficient use of natural resources and environmental impacts -- PART 4: THE WAY FORWARD -- 14. Politics of innovation and the spirit of justice -- 15. How can environmental justice be assessed when different stakeholders disagree on what is just? A practical solution -- 16. Australian jurisprudence of justice in water management: present limitations, future issues and law reform suggestions -- 17. The Social Justice Framework: Untangling the Maze of Justice Complexities -- 18. Exploring environmental justice and public policy -- 19. Current status and future prospects for justice research in environmental management.
ISBN:
9781486306374 (paperback)
Dewey class:
363.70994363.7
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
446899
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Society | SOCIETY 363.7 NATU | Available |