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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788013503321

Titolo

Failed promises : evaluating the federal government's response to environmental justice / / edited by David M. Konisky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-32714-7

0-262-02883-2

0-262-32713-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

American and comparative environmental policy

Disciplina

363.7/05610973

Soggetti

Environmental justice - United States

Environmental health - United States

United States Environmental conditions Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The federal government's response to environmental inequality / David M. Konisky -- Federal environmental justice policy in permitting / Eileen Gauna -- Assessing EPA's experience with equity in standard-setting / Douglas S. Noonan -- Evaluating environmental justice : analytic lessons from the academic literature and in practice / Ron Shadbegian and Ann Wolverton -- Public participation and environmental justice : access to federal decision-making / Dorothy M. Daley and Tony G. Reames -- Evaluating fairness in environmental regulatory enforcement / David M. Konisky and Christopher Reenock -- Environmental justice in the courts / Elizabeth Gross and Paul Stretesky -- Federal environmental justice policy : lessons learned / David M. Konisky.

Sommario/riassunto

A systematic evaluation of the implementation of the federal government's environmental justice policies.