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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779823703321

Autore

Rhodes Edwardo Lao <1946->

Titolo

Environmental justice in America : a new paradigm / / Edwardo Lao Rhodes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

9786612071980

1-282-07198-X

0-253-10309-6

0-253-10970-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 263 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

363.7/00973

Soggetti

Environmental justice - United States

Environmental law - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; One: Environmental Justice; Two: Forms of Environmental Justice; Three: What Has Gone Before - Why Race Was Not on the Original Environmental Agenda; Four: The Evolution of Environmental Justice as a Policy Issue - A Movement Whose Time Has Come; Five: Misconceptions about Minority Attitudes toward Environmental Issues; Six: The EPA, An Agency with an Attitude; Seven: Environmental Justice through the Lens of Policy Analysis - Why Should Government Get Involve; Eight: The Measurement of Environmental Justice - Some Rules of Engagement

Sommario/riassunto

Edwardo Lao Rhodes examines the issue of environmental justice as a public policy concern and suggests the use of a new methodology in its evaluation. Rather than argue the merits of growth versus environmental protection, he makes the case that race and class were not major concerns of environmental policy until the 1990's. Why this was so, and why awareness of social justice should be an important consideration in thinking about environmental impact, takes up the first part of the book. Part II looks