Overview
- 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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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Karen Bell is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environment at the University of West England, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Working-Class Environmentalism
Book Subtitle: An Agenda for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainability
Authors: Karen Bell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29519-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29518-9Published: 11 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29519-6Published: 16 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 292
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Social Sciences, Environmental Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality