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Where We Live, Work, and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism » Read Now
by Patrick Novotny. 120 pgs.

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Numerous studies have revealed that the poor disproportionately bear the burden of environmental problems in America today. Issues range from higher levels of poisonous wastes, carbon dioxide, and ozone, to greater than normal incidences of asthma and lead poisoning. The environmental justice...
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Numerous studies have revealed that the poor disproportionately bear the burden of environmental problems in America today. Issues range from higher levels of poisonous wastes, carbon dioxide, and ozone, to greater than normal incidences of asthma and lead poisoning. The environmental justice movement, which has emerged in working class and low-income African American and Latino communities since the early 1990s, is an effort that is reinterpreting the definition of the environment as "where we live, work, and play" to connect new constituencies traditionally outside of the postwar environmental movement. Novotny documents this expanding constituency through case studies of four community groups ranging from South Central Los Angeles to Louisiana.
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Environmental Injustice in the United States: Myths and Realities » Read Now
by James P. Lester, David W. Allen, Kelly M. Hill. 216 pgs.

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Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice » Read Now
by Laura Westra, Peter S. Wenz. 232 pgs.

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Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such...
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Through case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South.
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Justice, Society, and Nature: An Exploration of Political Ecology (Chap. 5 "Environmental Justice") » Read Now
by Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson. 258 pgs.

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Moving straight to the heart of pressing international and national concerns, Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson explore the issues of environment and development, fair treatment of humans and non-humans, and the justice of the social and economic systems which affect the health and safety of the...
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Moving straight to the heart of pressing international and national concerns, Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson explore the issues of environment and development, fair treatment of humans and non-humans, and the justice of the social and economic systems which affect the health and safety of the peoples of the world. Current grass-roots concerns such as the environmental justice movement in the U.S. and the ethics of the international regulation of development are examined. This book is essential reading for those seeking to understand current discussions in environmental politics, justice and ecology. The authors take debates beyond mere complaint about the injustice of the world economy, and suggest what should now be done to preserve the environment.
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Global Ethics and Environment (Part I "Environmental Justice Challenges" and Part II "Environmental Justice: Issues of Principle") » Read Now
by Nicholas Low. 320 pgs.

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Global Ethics and Environment explores several ethical issues from a range of perspectives and uses a wide range of case studies. The book focuses on the impact of development in new industrial regions and the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature. The editors also discuss the...
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Global Ethics and Environment explores several ethical issues from a range of perspectives and uses a wide range of case studies. The book focuses on the impact of development in new industrial regions and the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature. The editors also discuss the ethics of the impact of a single event, like the Chernobyl disaster, on the global community.
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People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation » Read Now
by Charles Zerner. 444 pgs.

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In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and remedies...
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In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and remedies must be based on broader considerations of history, culture, and geography in order to establish meaningful and lasting changes in policy and practice. Original case studies from Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the South Pacific focus on topics as diverse as ecotourism, bioprospecting, oil extraction, cyanide fishing, timber extraction, and property rights. The cases position concerns about biodiversity conservation and resource management within social justice and legal perspectives, providing new insights for students, scholars, policy professionals and donor/foundations engaged in international conservation and social justice.
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Searching for Environmental Justice: National Stories, Global Possibilities, in Social Justice » Read Now
by Jan Marie Fritz. 16 pgs.

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International Environmental Justice: A North-South Dimension, in International Journal of Politics and Ethics » Read Now
by Ruchi Anand. 22 pgs.
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Remedying Environmental Racism, in Michigan Law Review » Read Now
by Rachel D. Godsil. 34 pgs.

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...literature addressing environmental hazards and race...Commission for Racial Justice study of the relationship...distribution of various environmental burdens...
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Environmental Justice through Research-Based Decision-Making » Read Now
by William M. Bowen. 278 pgs.

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Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism » Read Now
by David Schlosberg. 230 pgs.

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In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of `critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice. Taking into account the evolution of environmentalism and pluralism over the course of the century, the...
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In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of `critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice. Taking into account the evolution of environmentalism and pluralism over the course of the century, the author argues that the environmental justice movement and new pluralist theories now represent a considerable challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement. Much of recent political theory has been aimed at how to acknowledge and recognize, rather than deny, the diversity inherent in contemporary life. In practice, the myriad ways people define and experience the `environment' has given credence to a form of environmentalism that takes difference seriously. The environmental justice movement, with its base in diversity, its networked structure, and its communicative practices and demands, exemplifies the attempt to design political practices beyond those one would expect from a standard interest group in the conventional pluralist model.
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Justice and the Environment: Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Theories of Distributive Justice » Read Now
by Andrew Dobson. 284 pgs.

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Environmental sustainability and social justice are both widely regarded as desirable social objectives. Professor Dobson's powerful new study explores the relationship between these two objectives and concludes that radical environmental demands are only incompletely served by couching them in terms of justice.
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Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment » Read Now
by David E. Cuesta Camacho. 232 pgs.

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...Analysis 9 The Environmental Justice Movement: A Political Framework...The Social Construction of Environmental justice Stephen Sandweiss...Injustices 139 Environmental...
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Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots » Read Now
by Robert D. Bullard. 259 pgs.

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...Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement 15...commissioning papers from leading environmental justice scholars and activists...there set off the national...
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Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality » Read Now
by Robert D. Bullard. 234 pgs.

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Starting with the premise that all Americans have a right to live in a healthy environment, Bullard chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with social justice.
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Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 » Read Now
by Andrew Hurley. 246 pgs.

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...harshest critiques of the environmental movement came from African...insensitivity to matters of social justice. For example, when a group...convenient, route to social...