Confronting Issues of Global Justice
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Köp båda 2 för 2764 krA compelling collection . . . [on] a global issue that demands our immediate attention. -- Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of Blues Legend and Black Feminism This wide-ranging collection of essays . . . is vivid and rigorous. -- Bernard Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Westra and Wenz have provided an invaluable and long overdue anthology in which all essays . . . provide insights not available elsewhere. Faces is accessible, yet challenging, and should be required reading in environmental ethics and policy courses, and would be a valuable supplement in social, political, and ethnic studies courses as well. . . . [and] provides a compelling cultural mirror of environmental injustice from which we cannot turn away. -- Shari Collins-Chobanian, University of Arizona, West * Environmental Ethics * Within the context of civil rights, the book clearly illustrates the role of environmental health and justice. * CHOICE *
Laura Westra is professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Windsor and the author or editor of numerous books, including An Environmental Proposal for Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), Faces of Environmental Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), Perspectives on Ecological Integrity (Kluwer), The Greeks and the Environment (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) and Technology and Values (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). Bill Lawson is professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Peter S. Wenz is professor of philosophy and legal studies at Sangamon State University.
Part 1 Part I. Foundations Chapter 2 Decision Making Chapter 3 Environmental Justice: A National Priority Chapter 4 Living for the City: Urban United States and Environmental Justice Chapter 5 Just Garbage Part 6 Part II. Racism in North America Chapter 7 Africville: Environmental Racism Chapter 8 Evanston Community and Environmental Racism: A Case Study in Social Philosophy Chapter 9 The Faces of Environmental Racism: Titusville, Alabama, and BFI Chapter 10 Consent, Equity, and Environmental Justice: A Louisiana Case Study Part 11 Part III. Racism in Africa Chapter 12 The Political Economy of the African Environment Chapter 13 Somalia: Environmental Degradation and Environmental Racism Chapter 14 South Africa: Environmental Sustainability Needs Empowerment of Women