Essays about: "Essay on environmental justice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Essay on environmental justice.

  1. 1. Overpopulation and Authoritarian Regime : The Villains in an Anthropocene Era

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Kajsa Gingborn; [2024]
    Keywords : Anthropocene; Authoriterian; Overpopulation; John Lanchester; Sam J. Miller; Blackfish City; The Wall; Rebellion; Social Justice; Climate Change; Anthropocene Fiction;

    Abstract : This essay explores the dynamic landscape of Anthropocene fiction, using novels such as John Lanchester’s The Wall and Sam J. Miller’s Blackfish City as lenses through which to explore the aftermath of climate change. READ MORE

  3. 2. Private Climate Litigation: A Viable Tool for Climate Justice?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : August Carlsson; [2023]
    Keywords : private law; private climate litigation; climate justice; environmental justice; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This essay concerns private climate litigation as a tool through which victims of loss and damage can access climate justice. Anthropogenic climate change is already today causing substantial harm to people and communities all over the world. READ MORE

  4. 3. The livelihoods of municipal solid waste workers – sustainable or a vicious cycle of debt and vulnerability? : A case study in Babati, Tanzania

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Utveckling och internationellt samarbete

    Author : Carl Johan Vikblad; Denise Lekare; [2019]
    Keywords : solid waste management; sustainable livelihood approach; environmental justice; vulnerability; LGAs; governance;

    Abstract : This essay examines sanitation workers who work with solid waste management and analyses their ability to create a sustainable livelihood based on livelihood assets and strategies. The study was undertaken in Babati, Tanzania and a qualitative method was applied, consisting of interviews and observations. READ MORE

  5. 4. Air pollution and social inequality in the European Union

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Maria Gelotte; [2017]
    Keywords : Air pollution; anthropology; environmental policy; the European Union; sustainability.; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Commonly, air pollution is treated by the European Union (EU) and its member states as a structural problem with technical, one-size-fit-all solutions. The EU has the ambition to follow the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals , Agenda 2030 , in which, for example, gender equality is highlighted. READ MORE

  6. 5. Towards a Coherent Sustainability Ethics : A study on the meaning and moral underpinnings in Sustainability and their relation to consequential and deontological perspectives

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Elizabeth Bushby; [2017]
    Keywords : Sustainability; ethics; Nussbaum; Singer; climate change; environment; social justice; development; intergenerational justice; distributive justice; utilitarianism; deontology; capabilities approach; ecology; global ethics;

    Abstract : The idea of writing this essay begun as an attempt to enter into the current discussion about the theory and ethics of sustainability. The essay aims to compare the meaning of sustainability with two ethical theories that are currently used in developmental and environmental issues, namely the theories of Martha Nussbaum and Peter Singer, and see how coherent these theories are with the concept of sustainability. READ MORE