Environmental Justice in Nepal

This edited volume provides a holistic compilation of the diverse range of emerging scholarship in critical environmental justice studies in Nepal. The book will appeal to scholars, researchers, students, and activists in environmental justice, sustainable development, South Asian, and Himalayan studies.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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