This innovative Handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of the complex relationship between inequality and the environment and illustrates the myriad ways in which they intersect. Featuring over 30 contributions from leading experts in the field, it explores the ways in which inequality impacts three of the most pressing contemporary environmental issues: climate change, natural resource extraction, and food insecurity. Laying the conceptual foundations for its analysis of key inequality–environment intersections, the Handbook covers theoretical traditions employed in the environmental inequality literature and examines different approaches to the concept of rights and how these influence scholarship on environmental justice. Chapters further investigate the multifaceted relationships between the natural environment and common forms of social inequalities, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class, the economy, and the state. Bringing together cutting-edge research on diverse inequality–environment intersections, this comprehensive Handbook will be relevant to both students and researchers in the social sciences and environmental sociology, politics, and geography. Its empirical insights will also prove valuable to public and social policymakers with access to mechanisms that can shape environmental protection policies. ‘A mass of original, cutting-edge research intended to demonstrate the numerous intersections between inequalities and environmental harms. The book’s 32 chapters, which are of uniformly high quality and written by both established and emerging scholars, are efficiently organized into nine parts covering theoretical traditions, rights, race/ethnicity, gender, the economy, the state, climate, natural resources, and food insecurity. .... in its length and global coverage, this handbook is a monumental achievement.’ -- Excerpt from Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2024 review Edited by Michael A. Long, Professor, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Michael J. Lynch, Professor, Department of Criminology, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, University of South Florida, US and Paul B. Stretesky, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK