Environmental Justice in Nepal

Origins, Struggles, and Prospects
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-44244-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice

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 Nepal. Its locale-specific contextualization provides a unique analysis of the natural resource-based livelihoods common in the region, together with the health and well-being impacts of urban and industrial developments in its rapidly changing political, economic, social, and ecological environment. Centering contributions from Nepalese scholars and practitioners, this volume spans a wide range of topics, including the origins of environmental justice in Nepal, land and agriculture, conservation, infrastructure and development, Indigenous peoples, climate justice, and health equity. It reflects on the rise and development of social movements and public policy, discusses the further evolution of environmental justice, and highlights how the work of scholars, activists, and practitioners in the Nepalese context can enrich global conversations about social and environmental issues.

This book will appeal to scholars, researchers, students, and activists in environmental justice, sustainable development, South Asian, and Himalayan studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

London, Jonathan K

Adhikari, Jagannath

Robertson, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Framing Environmental Justice Studies and Movements in Nepal  Part 1: Origins  2. Towards a New Paradigm for Environmental Justice Studies in Nepal  3. People’s Movements for Environmental Justice in Nepal: A Historical Perspective  4. Environmental justice and the role of Nepalese judiciary: A missed opportunity  Part 2: Land, Forests and Agriculture   5. Environmental injustice in confronting gendered access to land in Nepal: Joint land ownership as a promising practice  6. Environmental Justice and Unfree Agricultural Labourers in the Eastern Tarai of Nepal  7. Connecting Dalit Land Rights and Climate Justice  8. Environmental Justice and Pesticides  9. From Red to Green to Grey Hills: Reflections on the Four-Decade-Long Journey of Community Forestry and Environmental Justice in Nepal  Part 3: Conflicts over River and Lowland Conservation  10. Protected Areas and Expendable Communities, Wildlife-Human Conflict Survivors and Unjust Compensation in the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve  11. The River People and the Parks: Political Ecology of Conservation and Indigenous Livelihoods in Nepal’s Terai  Part 4: Infrastructure and Indigenous Peoples  12. Disaster Is Social: Uneven Effect and Recovery from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake  13. Indigenous struggles for development justice in Nepal: Environmentalism on the ground  Part 5: Urban Development and Environmental Justice  14. Ensuring Health, Hygiene and Dignity for Solid Waste Workers   15. Urban Environmental Justice: For Whom, From Whom?  16. Cycling for Livelihood in Nepal: Seeking Justice on Two Wheels  17. Through the Haze: Air Pollution and Environmental Justice   18. Towards Transport Justice on the Streets of Kathmandu  19. Building political capabilities through participation for environmental justice in informal housing in Kathmandu  Part 6: Climate Justice  20. Climate Change in Nepal through an Indigenous Environmental Justice Lens  21. Women, water and weather: Kavre villages adapt to the increasing impacts of the climate crisis  22. Applying a climate justice framework to understand inequities in urban water governance amid climate change challenges in Nepal  Part 7: Health Equity  23. The stress of poverty in tackling tuberculosis in Nepal  24. Impacts of Lead Contamination on Children’s Health in Nepal

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan K London is Professor in the Department of Human Ecology/Community and Regional Planning at the University of California, Davis, USA.

Jagannath Adhikari works as an independent researcher and teaches in Nepal and Australia.

Thomas Robertson is a historian and the former director of Fulbright Nepal/USEF.