Routledge Handbook of Young People’s Environmental Activism (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks)

This handbook addresses the new watershed moment in youth environmental activism: the collision of the historic and globally prominent youth-centred movements on the one hand, with established, consolidated power in opposition to environmental action on the other.The central goal of this handbook is to explore the state of the research literature on young people’s environmental activism, not just as a global network of movements involving young people, but as a global exchange of ideas, sentiments, and solidarities.The book explores how young people attempt to address the global injustice of environmental damage, take action on environmental issues including climate change, and imagine the world of social and environmental justice that they would like to build.The handbook borrows a slogan seen at Fridays for Future strikes around the world - “Systems Change, not Climate Change” - and asks: what systemic change do young environmental activists envision, and how do they conceive of, and