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- Title
Equity in Sustainable Communities: Exploring Tools from Environmental Justice and Political Ecology.
- Authors
Chitewere, Tendai
- Abstract
Ecovillages are a growing trend in the effort to find social and environmentally sustainable ways to live. Focused on preserving land and creating a sense of community, their design aims to offer middle-class households a way to connect with each other and the natural environment. Yet missing from this concept is an effort to address equity and environmental injustice concerns. This article examines an ecovillage in upstate New York and some of the opportunities and challenges of including equity and justice in this new socially and environmentally sustainable way to live. It concludes that if ecovillages hope to be more than a greener version of sprawl, they will need to expand their commitment to sustainability by incorporating equity and justice issues, including environmental justice struggles.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); SUSTAINABLE communities; CONSERVATION of natural resources; NATURE; HOUSEHOLDS -- Environmental aspects; ENVIRONMENTAL justice
- Publication
Natural Resources Journal, 2010, Vol 50, Issue 2, p315
- ISSN
0028-0739
- Publication type
Article