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Advancing Environmental Justice for Marginalized Communities in India

Progress, Challenges and Opportunities

Alan Diduck Kirit Patel Aruna Kumar Malik

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English
Routledge
25 September 2023
This interdisciplinary collection examines social equity and environmental justice in India. It assesses the effectiveness of environmental policies and institutions in rendering justice for marginalized communities while ensuring protection of the environment. It also analyses the influence of the neoliberal state and its political economies on the development and outcomes of these policies and institutions.

The book provides a unique perspective on environmental justice because of its consistent emphasis on social justice, rather than the prevailing predominant analyses from legal or environmental perspectives. It explores the themes of effectiveness and equity as they pertain to public policy instruments, such as environmental impact assessment, environmental licensing and enforcement, public hearings, and environmental activism strategies. The four interlinked dimensions of environmental justice, namely recognitional justice, procedural justice, distributive justice, and restorative justice, provide the core of the book’s conceptual framework. The contributions draw on ideas and methods from development studies, environmental geography, environmental law and policy, natural resource management, public administration, and political economy The book concludes by considering planning, policy and institutional reforms and community-based initiatives that are needed to promote and protect environmental justice in India.

Offering an important reference for researchers and scholars, this book will appeal to those in law, geography, environmental studies, natural resource management, development studies, sociology, and political science. It will also be of interest to community-based researchers, environmentalists and other civil society activists, natural resource managers, and policy makers.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9780367692827
ISBN 10:   0367692821
Pages:   244
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alan P. Diduck is a Professor and the Department Chair of Environmental Studies and Sciences at the University of Winnipeg. Before joining the university, he was a lawyer and executive director of a social profit organization providing public legal education and information services. His research deals with community engagement in environmental governance, the learning implications of involvement and the consequences for social aspects of sustainability, such as adaptive capacity and environmental justice. Kirit Patel is an Associate Professor and the Program Chair of International Development Studies at Menno Simons College, affiliated with the University of Winnipeg and Canadian Mennonite University. As an academic, policy analyst and development professional, Dr Patel's teaching and research focus on environmental and social justice, sustainable food systems and nutrition security, agrarian change and rural-urban migration, agrobiodiversity conservation, Indigenous knowledge systems and the governance of common property resources in South Asia. Aruna Kumar Malik was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Gujarat National Law University. He was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee International Scholarship and was a visiting scholar at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, in 2018-2019.

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