Toward Just Sustainability in Urban Communities : Building Equity Rights with sustainable solutions
By: AGYMAN, Julian; EVANS, Tom
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, November 2003Subject(s): Environmental Justice; Sustainability; Public Police; Planing; TransportationThe Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 590, p. 35-53Abstract: 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 diferent origins of these two concepts and their attendant movements, there exists an area of theoretical compability between them. This conceptual overlap is a critical nexus for a broad socail movement to create livable, sustainable communities for all people in the future. The goal of this article is to illustrate the nexus in the United States. The authors do this by presenting a rnage of local or regionally based practical models in five areas of common concern to both environmental justice and sustainability: land use planing, 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
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 diferent origins of these two concepts and their attendant movements, there exists an area of theoretical compability between them. This conceptual overlap is a critical nexus for a broad socail movement to create livable, sustainable communities for all people in the future. The goal of this article is to illustrate the nexus in the United States. The authors do this by presenting a rnage of local or regionally based practical models in five areas of common concern to both environmental justice and sustainability: land use planing, 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
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