Quest for Environmental Justice Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution

Name: Quest for Environmental Justice Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution
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ISBN: 9781578051205

ISBN-10: 1578051207

ISBN-13: 9781578051205

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert D. Bullard, Maxine Waters, Maxine Waters

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In 1994, Sierra Club Books was proud to publish Dr. Robert D. Bullard's Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color, a collection of essays contributed by some of the leading participants in the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, which focused attention on "environmental racism"--racial discrimination in environmental policymaking and the enforcement of environmental protection laws and regulations. Now, picking up where that groundbreaking anthology left off, Dr. Bullard has assembled a new collection of essays that capture the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication date: 10/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 414
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Robert D. Bullard is Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University.



Foreword



Preface



Acknowledgments


Introduction




A Legacy of Injustice



Environmental Justice in the Twenty-first Century




Neighborhoods "Zoned" for Garbage




Women Warriors of Color on the Front Line




The Assault on Fence-Line Communities



Living and Dying in Louisian's "Cancer Alley"




Environmental Inequity in Metropolitan Los Angeles




Toxic Racism on a New Jersey Waterfront




Land Rights and Sustainable Development



Anatomy of the Urban Parks Movement: Equal Justice, Democracy, and Livability in Los Angeles




Resource Wars against Native Peoples




Tierra y Vida: Chicano Environmental Justice Struggles in the Southwest




Human Rights and Global Justice



Environmental Reparations




Vieques: The Land, the People, the Struggle, the Future




Alienation and Militancy in the Niger Delta: Petroleum, Politics, and Democracy in Nigeria




Environmental Racism and Neoliberal Disorder in South Africa




Addressing Global Poverty, Pollution, and Human Rights




Principles of Environmental Justice



Nongovernmental Organization Language on Environmental Racism


Notes


Selected Bibliography


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