Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline

AvJ. Timmons Roberts,Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline, first published in 1991, provides a rare glimpse of the environmental justice movement as it plays out in four landmark struggles at the end of the twentieth century. The book describes the stories of everyday people who have decided to take to the streets to battle what they perceive as injustice: the unequal exposure of minorities and the poor to the 'bads' produced by our industrial society. In these struggles residents and local, state, and national environmental and social justice groups are on one side pitted against local and state government representatives and industry on the other. By employing historical and theoretical lenses in viewing these struggles, the book reveals how situations of environmental injustice are created and how they are resolved. These cases bear great similarity to battles occurring across the nation, and are setting precedents for national and state agencies as they handle these cases.

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Utgivningsdatum:2001-09-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521669009

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"Four fascinating accounts of the gutsy struggles of minority communities for a measure of environmental protection. Facing the combined power of the business and government 'growth machine' and its ability to play the intricate federal system, the communities persist, and they do not lose either. A compelling and readable book that is also sophisticated." Frances Fox Piven, The City University of New York

Innehållsförteckning

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.