Urban sustainability and environmental justice: evaluating the linkages in public planning/policy discourse

Pearsall, Hamil; Pierce, Joseph

doi:10.1080/13549839.2010.487528

Cited by 126 publications

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“…While there have been some efforts to EJ concerns in existing sustainability frameworks (cf Pearsall, 2010, Pearsall andPierce, 2010), others have sought to use social theory to understand why, despite decades of documentation and much action by civil society and governments, environmental injustices remain. Calls from the mid-1990s to "situate the production of inequalities with respect to broader social structures and political-economic processes" suggest a need to underlying reasons for injustice as well as the political obstacles for integrating justice concerns (Holifield 2009, p. 593).…”

Section: Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Dumping Ground or Country-in-Transition? Discourses of E-Waste in South Africa

Lawhon

2013

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Electronic waste (e-waste) has become a point of interest for social and technical scientists, activists, and policy-makers. In South Africa, researchers, consultants and industry have worked together to develop plans for modernizing the e-waste industry while, at the same time, a group of activists connected to the global environmental justice movement is concerned with the illegal import of e-waste into South Africa. In this paper, I show how the discourses of ecological modernisation and environmental justice have been mobilized by these two different groups. The discourses have contrasting evaluations of the role of technology, relationship with the state, and the role of political economy which shape interactions between the discourses and discourse coalitions. Despite these differences, productive engagements exist. I suggest that understanding these differences can improve this engagement and contribute to more successful e-waste policy and management in the South African context and more widely.

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Section: Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Dumping Ground or Country-in-Transition? Discourses of E-Waste in South Africa

Lawhon

2013

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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“…Through the discourse of sustainable development and the economic, social, and environmental triad was adopted at the level of international bureaucracy twenty years ago, it has taken much of this time for the interconnectivity to be apparent in sustainability discourse (cf Pearsall and Pierce, 2010;Saha, 2009). Certainly there is still a long way to go before these three aspects are given equal weight, but as the discourse of sustainability increasingly replaces environmentalism, the significance of global social, political, and economic change is increasingly seen to matter.…”

Section: From Environmentalism To Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Scalar Politics and Local Sustainability: Rethinking Governance and Justice in an Era of Political and Environmental Change

Lawhon

Patel

2013

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Abstract. The local was institutionalised as a key scale for environmental action at the Earth Summit, and remains salient in discourse, policy, and action. However, given both real changes and geographical insights into the politics of scale in the past twenty years, we suggest it is time to (re)consider this focus. We assess local sustainability through the lens of scalar politics, arguing for the need to consider what challenges particular scale frames foreground and which they silence. We focus on three changes which have occurred in the last twenty years-the growing salience of the Global South, shifts from environmentalism to sustainability, and new governance patterns-and reflect on the significance of these changes for local sustainability. We suggest the local frame occludes questions of international responsibility and justice, and that the changes since Rio require that we reconsider the scalar frame of local sustainability. We conclude by questioning who benefits from the local frame, and when, where, and for whom a focus on local sustainability may be relevant and ethical.

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“…Other studies of urban sustainability have adopted transdisciplinary approaches that aim to integrate scientific, political-strategic, and local knowledge [29,30]. Transdisciplinarity is characterized by elements such as attention to the "problems of everyday life" [31], collaboration between experts and researchers from different disciplines, and open confrontation between these academics and political and social actors [32].…”

Section: The Vision Of Sustainability In Middle-eastern and North-afrmentioning

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Local Sustainability and Cooperation Actions in the Mediterranean Region

2014

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Abstract:The populations of the Middle East and Africa are increasing rapidly, contributing to rapid urban growth. This paper describes a two-year action research process involving diverse public, private, and community stakeholders. The actions aimed to develop and strengthen the capabilities of three Mediterranean cities (Marrakech, Morocco; Sin el Fil, Lebanon; and Bodrum, Turkey) in managing and promoting local sustainable development. The needs and priorities of each Mediterranean partner were identified and pilot actions were elaborated to promote urban sustainability, the exploitation of local resources, and the enhancement of local tangible and intangible assets. The paper describes the outputs of pilot actions carried out in these cities, highlighting how these experiences contribute to the current debate on urban sustainability. Broad implications for policy and practice are discussed.

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Urban sustainability and environmental justice: evaluating the linkages in public planning/policy discourse

Cited by 126 publications

References 19 publications

Dumping Ground or Country-in-Transition? Discourses of E-Waste in South Africa

Dumping Ground or Country-in-Transition? Discourses of E-Waste in South Africa

Scalar Politics and Local Sustainability: Rethinking Governance and Justice in an Era of Political and Environmental Change

Local Sustainability and Cooperation Actions in the Mediterranean Region

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