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Environmental Injustice In The U.S.: Myths And Realities

By David Allen , James Lester , Kelly M Hill

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0813338190, 9780813338194, 9781429489027
Open Library ID
OL8024013M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22822508 bytes)
Pages
216\233
Topic
Biology Ecology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Environmental Injustice in the United States provides systematic insight into the social, economic, and political dynamics of environmental decision-making, and the impacts of those decisions on minority communities. The first part of the book examines closely the history of the environmental justice movement and the scholarly literature to date, with a discussion about how the issue made the public agenda in the first place. The second part of the book is a unique quantitative analysis of the relationship among race, class, political mobilization, and environmental harm at three levels-- state, county, and city. Despite the initial skepticism of the authors, their study finds both race and class to be significant variables in explaining patterns of environmental harm. The third part of the book then offers policy recommendations to decisionmakers, based on the book's findings. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2001.

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