This book project is a comparative study about Environmental Justice (EJ) issues in the Global South and Global North, with a focus on examples in the Americas that consider the influence of rural-urban connections on sustainability and fairness of environmental practices. The study will interrogate relationships between varied EJ communities (people subjected to environmental injustices), characteristics linked to these communities, market demands, forms of governance (internal and external to these communities), and other political economic forces that contribute to shaping or countering environmental injustices as expressed in both rural and urban contexts and their connections.

Mario L. Cardozo is Associate Professor at Kutztown University.