Handbook on Inequality and the Environment

Edited by Michael A. Long, Professor, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Michael J. Lynch, Professor, Department of Criminology, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, University of South Florida, US and Paul B. Stretesky, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK

• Contents:1 Introduction: inequality and the environment 1Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch, and Paul B. StreteskyPART I THEORETICAL TRADITIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY2 Treadmill of production 11Amalia Leguizamón3 Substantive inequality and the alienated metabolism of the capital system 28Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster, and Daniel Auerbach4 Ecologically unequal exchange 44Kelly F. Austin5 Social inequalities, environmental crises, and the STIRPAT model 59Patrick Trent Greiner, Julius Alexander McGee, and Richard York6 Environmental justice 71David N. Pellow7 Money, value, and entropy 86Alf HornborgPART II RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY8 Greenwashed relations of genocide 103Martin Crook and Damien Short9 Environmental inequality and rights of nature among IndigenousPeoples in North America 125Julie Schweitzer, Olivia M. Fleming, and Tamara L. Mix10 Nonhuman Animal rights 147Corey L. WrennPART III RACE/ETHNICITY, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, ANDENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY11 Race and environmental inequality 162Md Belal Hossain12 Environmentalinequality in West Africa 181Jessie K. Luna and Gabin Korbeogo13 Energy development and sociocultural inequality among First Nation Peoples 200Duane A. Gill and Liesel A. RitchiePART IV GENDER AND ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY14 Gender and environmental inequality 225Laura A. McKinney and Devin Wright15 Gender and nonhuman animals 243Amy Fitzgerald and Nik Taylor16 Gender, large-scale resource extraction, and environmental inequality inLatin America 262Inge A.M. Boudewijn and Katy JenkinsPART V THE ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY17 Organizational political economy, corporate power, and the greatacceleration of environmental pollution in the United States 285Harland Prechel18 Inequality, emissions, and human well-being 305Jennifer E. Givens, Orla M. Kelly, and Andrew K. Jorgenson19 Working time, inequality, and sustainability 322Jared B. Fitzgerald and Juliet SchorPART VI THE STATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY20 Democracy and environmental inequality 343Liam Downey and Brigid Mark21 Environmental criminal enforcement and environmental justice in theUnited States 362Joshua Ozymy and Melissa Jarrell Ozymy22 Non-criminal enforcement and environmental inequality in the United States 380Tara O’Connor Shelley and Anne E. Egelston23 Incarceration and environmental inequality 402Maggie Leόn-Corwin, Jericho R. McElroy, and Michelle L. Estes24 Grassland conservation and environmental inequality in Inner Mongolia, China 425KuoRay Mao, Qian Zhang, and Micaela TruslovePART VII CLIMATE AND INEQUALITY25 Climate change governance, environment, and inequality in Latin America 446Ruth E. McKie26 Social theory and climate change in the interregnum 460Robert J. Antonio27 Hurricanes, floods, and environmental inequality 486Jayajit Chakraborty, Timothy W. Collins, Aaron B. Flores, and Sara E. GrineskiPART VIII NATURAL RESOURCES AND INEQUALITY28 Coal and environmental inequality 502Ryan Wishart and Pierce Greenberg29 Hydraulic fracturing and environmental inequality 527Stephanie A. Malin, Adam Mayer, and Shawn Hazboun30 Uranium mining, environmental inequality, and Native American health 551Averi R. FegadelPART IX FOOD INSECURITY, INJUSTICE, AND INEQUALITY31 Food insecurity, inequality, and the environment 570Stephen J. Scanlan32 Food insecurity and inequality among young people in the United States 597Lara GonçalvesIndex

‘A mass of original, cutting-edge research intended to demonstrate the numerous intersections between inequalities and environmental harms. The book’s 32 chapters, which are of uniformly high quality and written by both established and emerging scholars, are efficiently organized into nine parts covering theoretical traditions, rights, race/ethnicity, gender, the economy, the state, climate, natural resources, and food insecurity. .... in its length and global coverage, this handbook is a monumental achievement.’