Environmental Quality and Social Justice in Urban America
Author : Conservation Foundation
Publisher :
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Environmental justice
ISBN :
Author : Conservation Foundation
Publisher :
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Environmental justice
ISBN :
Author : Conference on Environmental Quality and Social Justice, Woodstock, Ill., 1972
Publisher :
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Conservation of Natural Resources United States Congresses
ISBN :
Author : Conservation Foundation (United States)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN :
Author : Robert D. Bullard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429974906
This book provides the major economic, social, and psychological impacts associated with the siting of noxious facilities and their significance in mobilizing the African American community. It explores the barriers to environmental and social justice experienced by African Americans.
Author : Malo André Hutson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317595564
This book discusses the current demographic shifts of blacks, Latinos, and other people of colour out of certain strong-market cities and the growing fear of displacement among low-income urban residents. It documents these populations’ efforts to remain in their communities and highlights how this leads to community organizing around economic, environmental, and social justice. The book shows how residents of once-neglected urban communities are standing up to city economic development agencies, influential real estate developers, universities, and others to remain in their neighbourhoods, protect their interests, and transform their communities into sustainable, healthy communities. These communities are deploying new strategies that build off of past struggles over urban renewal. Based on seven years of research, this book draws on a wealth of material to conduct a case study analysis of eight low-income/mixed-income communities in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. This timely book is aimed at researchers and postgraduate students interested in urban policy and politics, community development, urban studies, environmental justice, urban public health, sociology, community-based research methods, and urban planning theory and practice. It will also be of interest to policy makers, community activists, and the private sector.
Author : Dorceta E. Taylor
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857241834
The environmental justice movement, an organized social and political force in America in the '80s, is a global phenomenon today as activists worldwide try to understand the relationship between environment, race/ethnicity and social inequality. This volume examines domestic and international environmental issues.
Author : David V. Carruthers
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental justice
ISBN : 0262033720
Scholars and activists investigate the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that illustrate the connections between popular environmental mobilization and social justice in the region.
Author : Edwardo Lao Rhodes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780253217745
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 1990s.
Author : Christopher W. Wells
Publisher : Weyerhaeuser Environmental Cla
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295743691
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence--but these developments came at the cost of a host of new environmental problems. Unsurprisingly, a disproportionate number of them, such as pollution-emitting factories, waste-handling facilities, and big infrastructure projects, ended up in communities dominated by people of color. Constrained by long-standing practices of segregation that limited their housing and employment options, people of color bore an unequal share of postwar America's environmental burdens. This reader collects a wide range of primary source documents on the rise and evolution of the environmental justice movement. The documents show how environmentalists in the 1970s recognized the unequal environmental burdens that people of color and low-income Americans had to bear, yet failed to take meaningful action to resolve them. Instead, activism by the affected communities themselves spurred the environmental justice movement of the 1980s and early 1990s. By the turn of the twenty-first century, environmental justice had become increasingly mainstream, and issues like climate justice, food justice, and green-collar jobs had taken their places alongside the protection of wilderness as "environmental" issues. Environmental Justice in Postwar America is a powerful tool for introducing students to the US environmental justice movement and the sometimes tense relationship between environmentalism and social justice. For more information, visit the editor's website: http: //cwwells.net/PostwarEJ
Author : Beth Schaefer Caniglia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317311892
Urban centres are bastions of inequalities, where poverty, marginalization, segregation and health insecurity are magnified. Minorities and the poor – often residing in neighbourhoods characterized by degraded infrastructures, food and job insecurity, limited access to transport and health care, and other inadequate public services – are inherently vulnerable, especially at risk in times of shock or change as they lack the option to avoid, mitigate and adapt to threats. Offering both theoretical and practical approaches, this book proposes critical perspectives and an interdisciplinary lens on urban inequalities in light of individual, group, community and system vulnerabilities and resilience. Touching upon current research trends in food justice, environmental injustice through socio-spatial tactics and solution-based approaches towards urban community resilience, Resilience, Environmental Justice and the City promotes perspectives which transition away from the traditional discussions surrounding environmental justice and pinpoints the need to address urban social inequalities beyond the build environment, championing approaches that help embed social vulnerabilities and resilience in urban planning. With its methodological and dynamic approach to the intertwined nature of resilience and environmental justice in urban cities, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners within urban studies, environmental management, environmental sociology and public administration.