J. Timmons Roberts, Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss

Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes how and why conflicts over environmental injustice are created and eventually resolved.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780521669009
• ISBN-10: 0521669006
• Artikelnr.: 21089028

Inhaltsangabe

1. Environmental justice struggles in perspective
2. Roots of environmental justice in Louisiana
3. The Nation's first major environmental justice judgment: the LES Clairborne Uranium Enrichment Facility
4. EPA's environmental justice test case: the Shintech PVC Plant
5. Media savvy Cajuns and Houma Indians fight Exxon's oilfield waste in Grand Bois
6. Stress and the politics of living on a superfund site - the agriculture street municipal landfill (with Amanda Leiker)
7. The Empire Strikes Back: backlash and implications for the future
First hand resources on environmental justice struggles: web sites
Further readings.