Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles

Race, Class and the Environment
Herausgeber: Camacho, David E

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Environmental equity is an important emerging issue in environmentalism, one of growing political significance. With original material on the West and Native American communities on which not very much has been written this valuable collection will attract considerable attention from scholars and policy practitioners alike."--Walter Rosenbaum, University of Florida

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780822322429
• ISBN-10: 0822322420
• Artikelnr.: 21753956

Autorenporträt

David E. Camacho, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / David E. Camacho 1
I. A Framework for Analysis 9
The Environmental Justice Movement: A Political Framework / David E.
Camacho 11
The Social Construction of Environmental Justice / Stephen Sandweiss 31
II. Environmental Injustices 59
Race, Class, and Environmental Hazards / Harvey L. White 61
Environmental Racism in Southern Arizona? The Reality beneath the Rhetoric
/ Jeanne Nienaber Clarke and Andrea K. Gerlak 82
Race for Water? Native Americans, Eurocentrism, and Western Water Policy /
Kate A. Berry 101
The Failure to Provide Basic Services to the Colonias of El Paso County: A
Case of Environmental Racism? / C. Richard Bath, Janet M. Tanski, and
Roberto E. Villarreal 125
III. Confronting Environmental Injustices 139
Environmental Justice and the Role of Indigenous Women Organizing Their
Communities / John G. Bretting and Diane-Michele Prindeville 141
Environmental Injustices and Traditional Environmental Organizations:
Potential for Coalition Building / Peter J. Longo 165
IV. Environmental Justice 177
Environmental Injustices: Examples from Ohio / Mary M. Timney 179
Bishigendan Akii: Respect the Earth / Linda Robyn and David E. Camacho 194
Environmental Ethics as a Political Choice / David E. Camacho 210
Contributors 225
Index 229