This book showcases the work of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars who uphold environmental justice as the path to a more just, equitable, and sustainable Canada.
Julian Agyeman is a professor in and chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. Peter Cole is an associate professor of Aboriginal and Northern Studies at the University College of the North. Randolph Haluza-DeLay is an assistant professor of sociology at King¿s University College. Pat O¿Riley is an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University.
Contributors: Julian Agyeman, Harris Ali, Jamie Baxter, F. Stuart Chapin III, Peter Cole, Leith Deacon, Lawrence K. Duffy, John Eyles, Anna Godduhn, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Lori Hanson, Henry P. Huntington, Beenash Jafri, Roger Keil, Gary Kofinas, Bonita Lawrence, Robert Lovelace, Deborah McGregor, David C. Natcher, Melissa Ollevier, Bernard Ominayak and Kevin Thomas, Pat O¿Riley, Barbara Rahder, Maureen Reed, Sarah Fleisher Trainor, Eric Tsang
Prologue: Notes from Prison - Protecting Algonquin Lands from Uranium Mining / Robert Lovelace
Introduction: Speaking for Ourselves, Speaking Together - Environmental Justice in Canada / Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O'Riley, Peter Cole, and Julian Agyeman
1 Honouring Our Relations: An Anishnaabe Perspective on Environmental Justice / Deborah McGregor
2 Reclaiming Ktaqamkuk: Land and Mi'kmaq Identity in Newfoundland / Bonita Lawrence
3 Why Is There No Environmental Justice in Toronto? Or Is There? / Roger Keil, Melissa Ollevier, and Erica Tsang
4 Invisible Sisters: Women and Environmental Justice in Canada / Barbara Rahder
5 The Political Economy of Environmental Inequality: The Social Distribution of Risk as an Environmental Injustice/ S. Harris Ali
6 These Are Lubicon Lands: A First Nation Forced to Step into the Regulatory Gap / Chief Bernard Ominayak, with Kevin Thomas
7 Population Health, Environmental Justice, and the Distribution of Diseases: Ideas and Practices from Canada / John Eyles
8 Environmental Injustice in the Canadian Far North: Persistent Organic Pollutants and Arctic Climate Impacts / Sarah Fleisher Trainor, Anna Godduhn, Lawrence K. Duffy, F. Stuart Chapin III, David C. Natcher, Gary Kofinas, and Henry P. Huntington
9 Environmental Justice and Community-Based Ecosystem Management / Maureen G. Reed
10 Framing Environmental Inequity in Canada: A Content Analysis of Daily Print News Media / Leith Deacon and Jamie Baxter
11 Environmental Justice as a Politics in Place: An Analysis of Five Canadian Environmental Groups' Approaches to Agro-Food Issues / Lorelei L. Hanson
12 Rethinking "Green" Multicultural Strategies / Beenash Jafri
13 Coyote and Raven Talk about Environmental Justice / Pat O'Riley and Peter Cole
Index