Environmental justice in Nepal : origins, struggles, and prospects /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: London, Jonathan K. (Editor), Adhikari, Jagannath, 1960- (Editor), Robertson, Thomas, 1967- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Series:Routledge studies in environmental justice.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : framing environmental justice studies and movements in Nepal / Jonathan K London, Jagannath Adhikari, and Thomas Robertson
  • Towards a new paradigm for environmental justice studies in Nepal / Jonathan K London and Sudikshya Bhandari
  • People's movements for environmental justice in Nepal : a historical perspective / Jagannath Adhikari
  • Environmental justice and the role of Nepalese judiciary : a missed opportunity / Jony Mainali
  • Environmental injustice in confronting gendered access to land in Nepal : joint land ownership as a promising practice / Srijana Baral, Kalpana Karki, and Kanchan Lama
  • Environmental justice and unfree agricultural labourers in the Eastern Tarai of Nepal / Suresh Kumar Dhakal
  • Connecting Dalit land rights and climate justice / Madan Pariyar and Arjun Biswakama
  • Environmental justice and pesticides / Kishor Atreya, Kanchan Kattel, Anisha Sapkota, and Hom Nath Gartaula
  • From red to green to grey hills : reflections on the four-decade-long journey of community forestry and environmental justice in Nepal / Sunita Chaudhary
  • Protected areas and expendable communities : human-animal conflict survivors and unjust compensation in the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve / Dhirendra Nalbo
  • The river people and the parks : political ecology of conservation and indigenous livelihoods in Nepal's Terai / Naya Sharma Paudel, Sudeep Jana Thing, and Rahul Karki
  • Disaster is social : uneven effect and recovery from the 2015 Nepal earthquake / Mukta S. Tamang
  • Indigenous struggles for development justice in Nepal : environmentalism on the ground / Prabindra Shakya
  • Ensuring health, hygiene and dignity for solid waste workers / Prashanna Pradhan and Bhawana Sharma
  • Urban environmental justice : for whom, from whom? / Kirti Kusum Joshi
  • Cycling for livelihood in Nepal : seeking justice on two wheels / Tara Lal Shrestha and Bidhya Shrestha
  • Through the haze : air pollution and environmental justice / Arnico K. Panday and Arti Govinda Shrestha
  • Driving towards environmental justice on the streets of Kathmandu / Bhushan Tuladhar
  • Building political capabilities through participation for environmental justice in informal housing in Kathmandu / Sangeeta Singh and Bijay Singh
  • Climate change in Nepal through an indigenous environmental justice lens / Pasang Yangjee Sherpa
  • Women, water and weather : Kavre villages adapt to the increasing impacts of the climate crisis / Sonia Awale
  • Applying a climate justice framework to understand inequities in urban water governance amid climate change challenges in Nepal / Gyanu Maskey, Poshendra Satyal, Monica Giri, and Prajal Pradhan
  • The stress of poverty in tackling tuberculosis in Nepal / Marissa Taylor
  • Impacts of lead contamination on children's health in Nepal / Meghnath Dhimal, Mandira Lamichhane Dhimal, and Madhusudan Subedi.