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Handbook on Inequality and the Environment

9781800881129 Edward Elgar Publishing

Edited by Michael A. Long, Professor, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Michael J. Lynch, Professor, Department of Criminology, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, University of South Florida, US and Paul B. Stretesky, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, UK

Publication Date: 2023 ISBN: 978 1 80088 112 9 Extent: 666 pp

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This innovative Handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of the complex relationship between inequality and the environment and illustrates the myriad ways in which they intersect.

Featuring over 30 contributions from leading experts in the field, it explores the ways in which inequality impacts three of the most pressing contemporary environmental issues: climate change, natural resource extraction, and food insecurity. Laying the conceptual foundations for its analysis of key inequality–environment intersections, the Handbook covers theoretical traditions employed in the environmental inequality literature and examines different approaches to the concept of rights and how these influence scholarship on environmental justice. Chapters further investigate the multifaceted relationships between the natural environment and common forms of social inequalities, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class, the economy, and the state.

Bringing together cutting-edge research on diverse inequality–environment intersections, this comprehensive Handbook will be relevant to both students and researchers in the social sciences and environmental sociology, politics, and geography. Its empirical insights will also prove valuable to public and social policymakers with access to mechanisms that can shape environmental protection policies.

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Contributors: Robert J. Antonio, Daniel Auerbach, Kelly F. Austin, Inge A.M. Boudewijn, Jayajit Chakraborty, Brett Clark, Timothy W. Collins, Martin Crook, Liam Downey, Anne E. Egelston, Michelle L. Estes, Averi R. Fegadel, Amy Fitzgerald, Jared Fitzgerald, Olivia M. Fleming, Aaron B. Flores, John Bellamy Foster, Duane A. Gill, Jennifer E. Givens, Lara Gonçalves, Pierce Greenberg, Patrick Trent Greiner, Sara E. Grineski, Shawn Hazboun, Alf Hornborg, Belal Hossain, Katy Jenkins, Andrew Jorgenson, Orla Kelly, Gabin Korbéogo, Amalia Leguizamón, Maggie León-Corwin, Michael A. Long, Jessie Luna, Michael J. Lynch, Stephanie A. Malin, KuoRay Mao, Brigid Mark, Adam Mayer, Jericho R. McElroy, Julius Alexander McGee, Ruth McKie, Laura McKinney, Tamara L. Mix, Joshua Ozymy, Melissa Jarrell Ozymy, David N. Pellow, Harland Prechel, Liesel A. Ritchie, Stephen J. Scanlan, Juliet Schor, Julie Schweitzer, Tara O’Connor Shelley, Damien Short, Paul B. Stretesky, Nik Taylor, Micaela Truslove, Ryan Wishart, Corey Wrenn, Devin Wright, Richard York, Qian Zhang

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Contents:

1 Introduction: inequality and the environment 1
Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch, and Paul B. Stretesky

PART I THEORETICAL TRADITIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY
2 Treadmill of production 11
Amalia Leguizamón
3 Substantive inequality and the alienated metabolism of the capital system 28
Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster, and Daniel Auerbach
4 Ecologically unequal exchange 44
Kelly F. Austin
5 Social inequalities, environmental crises, and the STIRPAT model 59
Patrick Trent Greiner, Julius Alexander McGee, and Richard York
6 Environmental justice 71
David N. Pellow
7 Money, value, and entropy 86
Alf Hornborg

PART II RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY
8 Greenwashed relations of genocide 103
Martin Crook and Damien Short
9 Environmental inequality and rights of nature among Indigenous
Peoples in North America 125
Julie Schweitzer, Olivia M. Fleming, and Tamara L. Mix
10 Nonhuman Animal rights 147
Corey L. Wrenn

PART III RACE/ETHNICITY, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, AND
ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY
11 Race and environmental inequality 162
Md Belal Hossain
12 Environmental
inequality in West Africa 181
Jessie K. Luna and Gabin Korbeogo
13 Energy development and sociocultural inequality among First Nation Peoples 200
Duane A. Gill and Liesel A. Ritchie

PART IV GENDER AND ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY
14 Gender and environmental inequality 225
Laura A. McKinney and Devin Wright
15 Gender and nonhuman animals 243
Amy Fitzgerald and Nik Taylor
16 Gender, large-scale resource extraction, and environmental inequality in
Latin America 262
Inge A.M. Boudewijn and Katy Jenkins

PART V THE ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY
17 Organizational political economy, corporate power, and the great
acceleration of environmental pollution in the United States 285
Harland Prechel
18 Inequality, emissions, and human well-being 305
Jennifer E. Givens, Orla M. Kelly, and Andrew K. Jorgenson
19 Working time, inequality, and sustainability 322
Jared B. Fitzgerald and Juliet Schor

PART VI THE STATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY
20 Democracy and environmental inequality 343
Liam Downey and Brigid Mark
21 Environmental criminal enforcement and environmental justice in the
United States 362
Joshua Ozymy and Melissa Jarrell Ozymy
22 Non-criminal enforcement and environmental inequality in the United States 380
Tara O’Connor Shelley and Anne E. Egelston
23 Incarceration and environmental inequality 402
Maggie Leόn-Corwin, Jericho R. McElroy, and Michelle L. Estes
24 Grassland conservation and environmental inequality in Inner Mongolia, China 425
KuoRay Mao, Qian Zhang, and Micaela Truslove

PART VII CLIMATE AND INEQUALITY
25 Climate change governance, environment, and inequality in Latin America 446
Ruth E. McKie
26 Social theory and climate change in the interregnum 460
Robert J. Antonio
27 Hurricanes, floods, and environmental inequality 486
Jayajit Chakraborty, Timothy W. Collins, Aaron B. Flores, and Sara E. Grineski

PART VIII NATURAL RESOURCES AND INEQUALITY
28 Coal and environmental inequality 502
Ryan Wishart and Pierce Greenberg
29 Hydraulic fracturing and environmental inequality 527
Stephanie A. Malin, Adam Mayer, and Shawn Hazboun
30 Uranium mining, environmental inequality, and Native American health 551
Averi R. Fegadel

PART IX FOOD INSECURITY, INJUSTICE, AND INEQUALITY
31 Food insecurity, inequality, and the environment 570
Stephen J. Scanlan
32 Food insecurity and inequality among young people in the United States 597
Lara Gonçalves

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