LEADER 05445oam 2200709 a 450 001 9910785584403321 005 20081106174939.0 010 $a979-84-00-64691-1 010 $a1-84972-882-8 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400646911 035 $a(CKB)2670000000075136 035 $a(EBL)2051555 035 $a(OCoLC)606743196 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000370818 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11285143 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000370818 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10378933 035 $a(PQKB)10543203 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2051555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11057174 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL784802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2051555 035 $a(OCoLC)263146919 035 $a(DLC)ABC1598842242 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000075136 100 $a20081021e20092023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnvironmental justice $ea reference handbook /$fDavid E. Newton 205 $a2nd ed. 210 1$aSanta Barbara, Calif. :$cABC-CLIO,$dc2009. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary world issues 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface""; ""1 Background and History""; ""Warren County, North Carolina: September 15, 1982""; ""Environmental Inequities, Environmental Racism, and Environmental Justice""; ""Examples of Environmental Inequities""; ""West Dallas, Texas""; ""Churchrock, New Mexico""; """"Cancer Alley""""; ""Pesticide Exposure""; ""Consumption of Toxic Fish from the Detroit River""; ""Proposed Select Steel Corporation Plant (Flint, Michigan)""; ""Sweet Valley and Cobb Town, Alabama""; ""West Harlem Environmental Action and Diesel Buses"" 327 $a""Southern Nuclear Operating Company""""Environmental Justice: Environmentalism and Civil Rights""; ""The Modern Environmental Movement""; ""The Civil Rights Movement""; ""Environmental Justice Comes of Age""; ""The Commission on Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ""; ""The Michigan Conference""; ""Governmental Recognition in the 1990s""; ""First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit""; ""Environmental Justice as a Social Movement""; ""Growth and Challenges""; ""References""; ""2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions"" 327 $a""Do Environmental Inequities Actually Exist?""""Progress and Environmental Degradation""; ""NIMBY, PIBBY, and LULUs""; ""Concerns about Environmental Issues among People of Color""; ""Access to Tools of Protest""; ""Job Blackmail""; ""The Effects of Environmental Regulations""; ""Environmental Inequities: By Chance or By Choice?""; ""The Legal Question of ""Intent"" in Environmental Inequities""; ""Responding to Environmental Inequities""; ""The Current Status of the Environmental Justice Movement in the United States""; ""Environmental Inequities Exist"" 327 $a""Federal, State, Regional, and Local Governmental Agencies Have a Responsibility to Find, Study, and Deal with Cases of Environmental Inequities""""The Federal Government Has Not Been a Strong Advocate for Environmental Justice""; ""Complaints Filed with the EPA Have Not Been an Effective Means of Dealing with Environmental Inequities""; ""Environmental Justice Advocates Have Largely Failed to Obtain Redress from Inequities through the Judicial System""; ""The U.S. Congress Has Failed to Take Action on Basic Environmental Justice Legislation"" 327 $a""Environmental Justice Activists Have Learned to Use a Combination of Tools for Achieving Their Goals""""References""; ""3 Worldwide Perspective""; ""Environmental Inequities Worldwide""; ""Mineral Extraction in Papua New Guinea""; ""Environmental Discrimination against the Roma in Central Europe""; ""Ecotourism and the Maasai""; ""The Bakun Hydroelectric Project in Sarawak""; ""Thor Chemicals and Mercury ""Recycling""""; ""The Voyage of the Khian Sea""; ""A Background for the Transboundary Dumping of Hazardous Wastes""; ""The Basel Convention""; ""Other Treaties and Bans"" 327 $a""Environmental Justice and Climate Change"" 330 $aBuilding on the original edition's focus on the link between social inequalities and the uneven distribution of environmental hazards in the air, water, and soil, Environmental Justice: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition presents a contemporary look at the convergence of the environmental movement and civil rights activism. Environmental Justice, Second Edition follows the rise and maturation of the movement focused on environmental racism, describes solutions that have been implemented, and examines issues that remain unresolved. The book offers a wealth of new data and information, par 410 0$aContemporary world issues. 606 $aCivil rights 606 $aDistributive justice 606 $aEnvironmental justice$xSocial aspects 615 0$aCivil rights. 615 0$aDistributive justice. 615 0$aEnvironmental justice$xSocial aspects. 676 $a363.7 700 $aNewton$b David E$01134309 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785584403321 996 $aEnvironmental justice$93681333 997 $aUNINA