Environmental Justice Through Research-Based Decision-Making

"The timely efforts of Mr. Bowen provides a useful resource for students and researchers who want to deepen their understanding of the issues surrounding environmental justice. Also, every policy maker interested in strengthening arguments in favor of laws that reduce the apparent disproportionate health impact on certain communities should find this book a helpful tool.-- Environmental Law.""I think this is an important book for the way it lays out the social science resaerch model and applies it to critique the literature." -- Public Administration Review, July/August 2002

• Chapter I. Environmental Justice Administration and Policy Decisions: Context and Conceptual Prerequistes Chapter II. Some Major Terms and Concepts in the Language of Environmental Justice Chapter III. Social Scientific Methods of Inference on Environmental Justice Chapter IV. Environmental Justive Resarch Deisgns and Procedures Chapter V. The Current State of Empirical Knowledge About Environmental Justice Chapter VI. Contributions to Empirical Knowledge from Ancillary Research Chapter VII. Analysis of Environmental Justice Decisions Chapter VIII. The Use of Empirical Knowledge in Making Environmental Justice Policy and Management Decisions