Contesting and resisting environmental gentrification: Responses to new paradoxes and challenges for urban environmental justice

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Pearsall, Hamil ^a   Anguelovski, Isabelle ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental gentrification; Resistance; Sustainability; Urban environmental justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986296993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13607804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.3979     Document Type: Article

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