Castan Broto, V. orcid.org/0000-0002-3175-9859 and Westman, L. orcid.org/0000-0003-4599-4996 (2019) Urban Sustainability and Justice: Just Sustainabilities and Environmental Planning. Zed Books , London , (208pp). ISBN 9781786994929
Abstract
Urban Sustainability and Justice presents an innovative yet practical approach to incorporate equity and social justice into sustainable development in urban areas, in line with the commitments of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. This work proposes a feminist reading of just sustainabilities' principles to reclaim sustainability as a progressive discourse which informs action on the ground. This work will help the committed activist (whether they are on the ground, working in a community, in a non-governmental organization (NGO), in a business, at a university, in any sphere in government) to connect their work to international efforts to deliver environmental justice in cities around the world.
Drawing on a comparative, international analysis of sustainability initiatives in over 200 cities, Castán Broto and Westman find limited evidence of the implementation of just sustainabilities principles in practice, but they argue that there is considerable potential to develop a justice-oriented sustainability agenda. Highlighting current successes while also assessing prospects for the future, the authors show that just sustainabilities is not merely an aspirational discourse, but a frame of reference to support radical action on the ground.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Vanesa Castán Broto and Linda Westman, 2019. This work is published open access subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). You may re-use, distribute, and reproduce this work in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. |
Keywords: | Business & Economics |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Faculty of Social Sciences Research Institute |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2025 13:49 |
Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2025 13:49 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Zed Books |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.5040/9781350223776 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:222992 |