eco-apartheid

English

Noun

eco-apartheid (countable and uncountable, plural eco-apartheids)

1. Alternative form of ecoapartheid
   • 2004, School Library Journal - Volume 50, Issues 4-6:

     For example, a nine-page entry on "Lifestyle" examines the connection between pollution and a consumer lifestyle and "eco-apartheid," the costs of material growth paid by the urban poor.

   • 2012, Advances in Environment Research and Application:

     Using empirical evidence from the published literature, as well as the author's own practical experience conducting community-based participatory research in Berkeley, the author applies the eco-apartheid conceptual framework to the city of Berkely.

   • 2013, Jack Appleton, Values in Sustainable Development:

     Humanity stands at a crossroad. One road continues on the path of eco-apartheid and eco-imperialism, of commodification of the earth, her resources and processes.

   • 2016, M. Pérez Ramos, The Water Apocalypse: Utopian Desert Venice Cities and Arcologies in Southwestern Dystopian Fiction:

     It is a call to arms to the readers, to take action in order to stop socio-environmental degradation and related eco-apartheids before it is too late and drastic measures (such as sabotaging dams) need to be taken.