1 Introduction: the worlds of environmental justice Part I: SITUATING, ANALYSING AND THEORISING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 2 Historicizing the personal and the political: evolving racial formations and the environmental justice movement 3 Social movements for environmental justice through the lens of social movement theory 4 Environmental justice movements and political opportunity structures 5 Environmental justice and rational choice theory 6 The political economy of environmental justice 7 Feminism and environmental justice 8 Opening black boxes: environmental justice and injustice through the lens of science and technology studies 9 Procedural environmental justice 10 The recognition paradigm of environmental injustice 11 A capabilities approach to environmental justice 12 Vulnerability, equality and environmental justice: the potential and limits of law 13 Environmental human rights 14 Sustainability discourses and justice: towards social-ecological justice PART II: METHODS IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESEARCH 15 Spatial representation and estimation of environmental risk: a review of analytic approaches 16 Assessing population at risk: areal interpolation and dasymetric mapping 17 Application of spatial statistical techniques 18 Historical approaches to environmental justice 19 The ethics of embodied engagement: ethnographies of environmental justice 20 Storytelling environmental justice: cultural studies approaches 21 Facilitating transdisciplinary conversations in environmental justice studies 22 Cumulative risk assessment: an analytic tool to inform policy choices about environmental justice 23 A review of community-engaged research approaches used to achieve environmental justice and eliminate disparities 24 Participatory GIS and community-based citizen science for environmental justice action PART III: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESEARCH 25 Streams of toxic and hazardous waste disparities, politics and policy 26 Air pollution and respiratory health: does better evidence lead to policy paralysis? 27 Water justice: key concepts, debates and research agendas 28 Environmental justice and flood hazards: a conceptual framework applied to emerging findings and future research needs 29 Climate change and environmental justice 30 Environmental justice and large-scale mining 31 Justice in energy system transitions: a synthesis and agenda 32 Transportation and environmental justice: history and emerging practice 33 Food justice: an environmental justice approach to food and agriculture 34 Environmental crime and justice: a green criminological examination 35 Urban parks, gardens and greenspace 36 Urban planning, community (re)development and environmental gentrification: emerging challenges for green and equitable neighbourhoods 37 Just conservation: the evolving relationship between society and protected areas PART IV: GLOBAL AND REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESEARCH 38 Free-market economics, multinational corporations and environmental justice in a globalized world 39 Globalizing environmental justice: radical and transformative movements past and present 40 Environmental justice for a changing Arctic and its original peoples 41 Environmental injustice in resource-rich Aboriginal Australia 42 Environmental justice across borders: lessons from the US-Mexico borderlands 43 The dawn of environmental justice?: the record of left and socialist governance in Central and South America 44 Urban environmental (in)justice in Latin America: the case of Chile 45 Environmental justice in Nigeria: divergent tales, paradoxes and future prospects 46 Sub-imperial ecosystem management in Africa: continental implications of South African environmental injustices 47 Environmental justice and attachment to place: Australian cases 48 Environmental justice in South and Southeast Asia: inequalities and struggles in rural and urban contexts 49 Environmental justice in a transitional and transboundary context in East Asia 50 Environmental justice in Western Europe 51 Environmental justice in Central and Eastern Europe: mobilization, stagnation and detraction.