Toward Just Sustainability in Urban Communities: Building Equity Rights with Sustainable Solutions Export

@article{citeulike:3851596, abstract = {Two concepts that provide new directions for public policy, environmental justice and sustainability, are both highly contested. Each has tremendous potential to effect long-lasting change. Despite the historically different origins of these two concepts and their attendant movements, there exists an area of theoretical compatibility between them. This conceptual overlap is a critical nexus for a broad social movement to create livable, sustainable communities for all people in the future. The goal of this articleis to illustrate the nexus in the United States. The authors do this by presenting a range of local or regionally based practical models in five areas of common concern to both environmental justice and sustainability: land use planning, solid waste, toxic chemical use, residential energy use, and transportation. These models address both environmental justice principles while working toward greater sustainability in urbanized areas. 10.1177/0002716203256565}, author = {Agyeman, Julian and Evans, Tom}, citeulike-article-id = {3851596}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716203256565}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/590/1/35}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0002716203256565}, journal = {The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science}, keywords = {equity, justice, planning, sustainablilty}, month = {November}, number = {1}, pages = {35--53}, posted-at = {2009-01-06 01:19:55}, priority = {3}, title = {Toward Just Sustainability in Urban Communities: Building Equity Rights with Sustainable Solutions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716203256565}, volume = {590}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3851596 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3851596 N2 - Two concepts that provide new directions for public policy, environmental justice and sustainability, are both highly contested. Each has tremendous potential to effect long-lasting change. Despite the historically different origins of these two concepts and their attendant movements, there exists an area of theoretical compatibility between them. This conceptual overlap is a critical nexus for a broad social movement to create livable, sustainable communities for all people in the future. The goal of this articleis to illustrate the nexus in the United States. The authors do this by presenting a range of local or regionally based practical models in five areas of common concern to both environmental justice and sustainability: land use planning, solid waste, toxic chemical use, residential energy use, and transportation. These models address both environmental justice principles while working toward greater sustainability in urbanized areas. 10.1177/0002716203256565 IS - 1 JF - The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science EP - 53 TI - Toward Just Sustainability in Urban Communities: Building Equity Rights with Sustainable Solutions VL - 590 SP - 35 KW - equity KW - justice KW - planning KW - sustainablilty AU - Agyeman, Julian AU - Evans, Tom PY - 2003/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716203256565 ER -