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Environmental justice : a reference handbook
- Author
- Newton, David E.
- Title
- Environmental justice : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Published
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2009.
- Description
- xix, 308 p. ; 24 cm.
- Uniform series
- Contemporary world issues.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 1. Background and history: Warren Country, North Carolina: September 15, 1982
- Environmental Inequities, environmental racism, and environmental justice
- Examples of environmental inequalities
- Environmental Justice: environmentalism and civil rights
- Environmental justice comes of age
- Environmental justice as a social movement
- 2. Problems, controversies, and solutions: Do environmental inequities actually exist?
- Progress and environmental degradation
- NIMBY, PIBBY, AND LULUs
- The effects of environmental regulations
- Environmental inequities: by chance or by choice?
- Legal questions of "intent" in environmental inequities
- Responding to environmental inequities
- The current status of the environmental justice movement in the United States The federal government has not been a strong advocate for environmental justice
- Complaints filed with the EPA have not been in effective means of dealing with environmental inequities
- Environmental justice advocates have largely failed to obtain redress for inequities through the Judicial System
- The U.S. Congress has failed to take action on basic environmental justice legislation
- Environmental justice activists have learned to use a combination of tools for achieving their goals
- 3. Worldwide perspectives: Environmental inequities worldwide
- A background for the transboundary dumping of hazardous waste
- Environmental justice and climate change
- Environmental justice and sustainable development
- 4. Chronology
- 5. Biographical sketches: Dana Ann Alston
- Bunyan Bryant
- Robert Bullard
- Dollie Burwell
- César Chávez
- Torri Estrada
- Margie Eugene-Richard
- Jay Feldman
- Deeohn Ferris
- LaDonna Harris
- Hazel Johnson
- Pamela Tau Lee
- Graciela Martinez
- Norris McDonald
- Paul Mohai
- Richard Moore
- Na t́aki Osborne
- Swati Prakash
- Patricia E. Salkin
- Peggy Shepard
- Gail Small
- Damu Smith
- Beverly Wright
- 6. Data and documents
- 7. Directory of organizations: Governmental organizations
- Nongovernmental organizations.
- Subject headings
- Distributive justice. Environmental justice--Social aspects. Civil rights.
- ISBN
- 9781598842234 (hard copy : alk. paper) 1598842234 (hard copy : alk. paper) 9781598842241 (ebook) 1598842242 (ebook)