Urban sustainability and environmental justice: Evaluating the linkages in public planning/policy discourse

Local Environment

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 569-580

  Pearsall, Hamil ^a   Pierce, Joseph ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Environmental justice; Equity; Planning; Sustainability indicators; Urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLICY STRATEGY; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954300675     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2010.487528     Document Type: Article

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