Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice
About the Book Series
This series is theoretically and geographically broad in scope, seeking to explore the emerging debates, controversies and practical solutions within Environmental Justice, from around the globe. It offers cutting-edge perspectives at both a local and global scale, engaging with topics such as climate justice, water governance, air pollution, waste management, environmental crime, and the various intersections of the field with related disciplines.
The Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice series welcomes submissions that combine strong academic theory with practical applications, and as such is relevant to a global readership of students, researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and activists. Please contact the Editors Grace Harrison ([email protected]) or Annabelle Harris ([email protected]) to submit proposals.
The Politics of Riverine Rights: Environmental Struggles in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India
1st Edition
Edited
By Axel Borchgrevink, Malene K. Brandshaug
December 09, 2025
This edited collection, based on comparative, multi-sited ethnographic research, explores the concept of riverine rights in relation to rivers in New Zealand, Columbia and India that have been declared legal persons or subjects of rights: the Whanganui, the Atrato, the Ganges and the Yamuna. The ...
Guerrilla Ecologies: Green Capital, Nature, and the Politics of Catastrophe
1st Edition
By John Maerhofer
July 31, 2025
This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy, and strategy that have been gathering force in radical ecological circles. It responds to some of the urgent questions about utilizing militancy as part of the overall effort to foster an ecosocialist society. Building...
The Conservation of Violence: Statecraft, Forests, and Coloniality
1st Edition
By Tafadzwa Mushonga
July 14, 2025
The Conservation of Violence explores the governance of protected forests in Zimbabwe, highlighting the structural and operational mechanism through which violent tactics are produced, employed, and sustained to promote nature conservation. Drawing on political ecology, geography, and environmental...
Politics and Resistance of Coal in Australia and India: Climate Justice Activism in the Global North and South
1st Edition
By Ruchira Talukdar
January 31, 2025
Since 2009, international climate activism has focused on stopping coalmining in solidarity with local and Indigenous struggles that are resisting coalmining. Based on ethnographic and historic research in Australia and India, this book compares the politics and resistance to coal in the two ...
Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature
1st Edition
By Adrian Tait
December 18, 2024
This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837–1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice. As this book emphasises, environmental injustice – simply, the ...
Rectifying Climate Injustice: Reparations for Loss and Damage
1st Edition
By Laura García-Portela
October 31, 2024
This book provides an account of how rectificatory justice for climate change loss and damage can be realized by bridging the worlds of political philosophy, climate science and climate policy together. The book focuses on three fundamental questions: what kinds of climate impacts should count as ...
Environmental Justice in Nepal: Origins, Struggles, and Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan K London, Jagannath Adhikari, Thomas Robertson
October 25, 2024
This edited volume provides a holistic compilation of the diverse range of emerging scholarship in critical environmental justice studies in Nepal. This book brings together environmental justice scholarship set within a robust conceptual framework, focusing on a diversity of case studies from ...
Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice: The Vision and the Reality
1st Edition
By Andreas Roos
October 07, 2024
Building on insights from ecological economics and philosophy of technology, this book offers a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understand the contradictory nature of Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is rapidly emerging as a cost-effective option in the ...
Intergenerational Challenges and Climate Justice: Setting the Scope of Our Obligations
1st Edition
By Livia Ester Luzzatto
January 29, 2024
Climate change poses questions of intergenerational justice, but some of its features make it difficult to determine whether we have obligations of climate justice to future generations. This book offers a novel argument, justifying the present generation’s obligations to future people. Livia ...
John Rawls and Environmental Justice: Implementing a Sustainable and Socially Just Future
1st Edition
By John Töns
September 25, 2023
Using the principles of John Rawls’ theory of justice, this book offers an alternative political vision, one which describes a mode of governance that will enable communities to implement a sustainable and socially just future. Rawls described a theory of justice that not only describes the sort of...
Climate Change Justice and Global Resource Commons: Local and Global Postcolonial Political Ecologies
1st Edition
By Shangrila Joshi
January 09, 2023
This book examines the multiple scales at which the inequities of climate change are borne out. Shangrila Joshi engages in a multi-scalar analysis of the myriad ways in which various resource commons – predominantly atmosphere and forests – are implicated in climate governance, with a consistent ...
Ecosocialism and Climate Justice: An Ecological Neo-Gramscian Analysis
1st Edition
By Eve Croeser
May 06, 2022
This book investigates the broader climate movement to contextualise the role played by its climate justice wing, focusing specifically on the theoretical and practical contributions of ecosocialists. Ecosocialism and Climate Justice provides an account of the shift from the Holocene to the ...