This book presents a timely perspective that puts working-class people at the forefront of
achieving sustainability. Bell argues that environmentalism is a class issue and confronts
some current practice policy and research that is preventing the attainment of sustainability
and a healthy environment for all. She combines two of the biggest challenges facing humanity:
that millions of people around the world still do not have their social and environmental needs
met (including healthy food clean water affordable energy clean air) and that the earth's
resources have been over-used or misused. Bell explores various solutions to these social and
ecological crises and lays out an agenda for simultaneously achieving greater well-being
equality and sustainability. The result will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and
policy-makers working to achieve environmental and social justice as well as to students and
scholars across social policy sociology human geography and environmental studies.
