Our Backyard

A Quest for Environmental Justice
Herausgeber: Visgilio, Gerald R; Whitelaw, Diana M

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by local activists and nationally recognized scholars deals with the history, status, and dilemmas of environmental justice. These essays provide a comprehensive overview of social and political aspects associated with environmental injustices in minority and poor communities. It will provide a solid platform for dialogue between activists and policymakers or between teachers and students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 162mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780742523630
• ISBN-10: 0742523632
• Artikelnr.: 21521198

Autorenporträt

Gerald R. Visgilio is professor of economics at Connecticut College and has spent nearly three decades teaching and working in the area of environmental and natural resource economics. Diana M. Whitelaw is assistant director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Environmental Hazards in Poor and Minority
Communities Chapter 3 History and Issues of the Environmental Justice
Movement Chapter 4 Environmental Justice and the Social Determinants of
Health Chapter 5 Green Imperialism: Indigenous People and Conservation of
Natural Environments Part 6 Empirical Research and Methodological
Challenges Chapter 7 Burning and Burying in Connecticut: Are Regional
Solutions to Solid Waste Disposal Equitable? Chapter 8 Risky Business?
Relying on Empirical Studies to Assess Environmental Justice Part 9
Responses to Environmental Injustices Chapter 10 Syndrome Behavior and the
Politics of Environmental Justice Chapter 11 Confronting Environmental
Injustice in Connecticut Chapter 12 For the People: American Indian and
Hispanic Women in New Mexico's Environmental Justice Movement Part 13
Prospects for the Future Chapter 14 In Pursuit of Healthy and Livable
Communities Chapter 15 Three Political Problems for Environmental Justice