Wildlife responses to climate change, North American case studies

the subject of a book. Several chapters describe environmental justice campaigns that have contributed directly to a broader sustainability agenda. For example, Faber and McCarthy discuss the campaign to eliminate the pesticide methyl bromide as a port fumigant in San Diego, California. Methyl bromide is a reproductive toxicant and an ozone depleting chemical, so it is significant both for local environmental health and for the global environment. This successful campaign has served as a model for environmental health campaigns in other port communities, and has spurred the creation of ambitious local projects for environmental protection and reclamation. The chapter on environmental justice in New Zealand similarly shows the success of local environmental justice movements in promoting sustainability, examining Maori efforts to resist genetic engineering and bioprospecting on their land. A weakness of the book is that the editors have not done as much as they could to create coherence and dialogue among the collected works. In addition, there is some lack of clarity about whether the focus is on environmental justice or on the broader concept of social justice or equity. Some chapters clearly focus on environmental justice, while others look more generally at the relationship between environmental degradation or preservation and the pursuit of social justice. This lack of clarity can be seen, for example, in the chapter by Dobson, which looks at the relationship between environmental protection and social justice generally; it is unclear how this chapter relates to those that specifically address the relationship between environmental justice movements and the quest for sustainability. Despite these drawbacks, the book contains much valuable material, ranging from narratives about individual environmental justice efforts to suggestions toward interesting new empirical research agendas.