Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword (on Living in an Interregnum)
- 1 Intersections of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Part I Frameworks
- Part II Case Studies
- Strategies, Challenges, and Vulnerable Groups
- 9 The Role of Public Interest Litigation in Realizing Environmental Justice in South Asia
- 10 Children’s Rights or Intergenerational Equity?
- 11 Indigenous Environmental Rights and Sustainable Development
- 12 Indigenous Ancestors
- 13 Water Justice and the Social Pillar of Sustainable Development
- 14 Gender, Indigeneity, and the Search for Environmental Justice in Postcolonial Africa
- 15 Colombo International Financial City
- Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes
- Resource Extraction
- Energy
- Climate Change
- Part III Conclusion
- Index
10 - Children’s Rights or Intergenerational Equity?
Exploring Children’s Place in Environmental Justice
from Strategies, Challenges, and Vulnerable Groups
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2021
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword (on Living in an Interregnum)
- 1 Intersections of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Part I Frameworks
- Part II Case Studies
- Strategies, Challenges, and Vulnerable Groups
- 9 The Role of Public Interest Litigation in Realizing Environmental Justice in South Asia
- 10 Children’s Rights or Intergenerational Equity?
- 11 Indigenous Environmental Rights and Sustainable Development
- 12 Indigenous Ancestors
- 13 Water Justice and the Social Pillar of Sustainable Development
- 14 Gender, Indigeneity, and the Search for Environmental Justice in Postcolonial Africa
- 15 Colombo International Financial City
- Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes
- Resource Extraction
- Energy
- Climate Change
- Part III Conclusion
- Index
Summary
The notion of environmental justice, which emerged in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s to draw attention to the disproportionate environmental burden carried by poor and minority communities, has joined the sustainable development parlance as part of the social pillar of sustainability.1 Economic development cannot happen at the expense of the environment and of the well-being of humans.
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