Is planet earth green? / / edited by Gabriela Mádlo.

• TeilnehmendeR: Mádlo, Gabriela,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, United Kingdom : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Critical issues
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

These discourses take the reader around the world, into such cities as Aberdeen, Växjö, Zarnowiec, Curitiba and Limburg, to visit the environmental practices, examined under the magnifying glass. This volume, rich with diversity, brings interesting and positive reading of countless examples on the subject of environmental justice, exhibiting its importance and increasing its awareness. The ten chapters within this volume provide an understanding of key factors for the balance between human race and nature that leans against the human proactive behaviour supported by the environmental justice.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gabriela Mádlo -- Complementary Currencies to Contribute to Sustainable Cities and Communities / Laurent Béduneau-Wang and Sophie Galharret -- The Role of Decentralised Energy in Delivering ‘Just Sustainability’ in Northern European Cities: A Review of Theory and Practice / Elaine Morrison , Bill Lynch , David Rodley and John Rowan -- Sustainability and the Hegemony of Technique Towards a New Approach to Cultural Sustainability / M. Reza Shirazi -- British Climate Change Act 2008 as a Legislative Stimulus towards more Sustainable Economies in EU Member States – Legal Challenges and Opportunities / Petr Bouda and Kristína Šabová -- International Organizations, Free Trade and Environmental Citizenship: Mexico and Chile in Comparative Perspective / Sherrie L. Baver -- Global Environmental Citizenship: The Polish Approach to Ecology / Rafał Wonicki -- Global Environmental Justice and Global Income Policy / Ton Bührs -- Multifarious Networks in Climate change Research: Scientists, Policy Makers and the Public / Ana Delicado -- Interspecific, Intergenerational Justice in African Thought: Implications for Policy / Kevin Behrens -- Negotiating Green Urbanism in Imagined Communities / Thor Kerr.