Research Catalog

Title

Toxic struggles : the theory and practice of environmental justice / edited by Richard Hofrichter ; foreword by Michel Gelobter.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hofrichter, Richard.

Description

xi, 260 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Environmental justice
• Environmental justice > Political aspects
• Ecofeminism
• Social ecology
• Social justice

Note

• Previously published: Philadelphia : New Society Publishers, 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-242) and index.

Contents

Capitalism and the crisis of environmentalism / Daniel Faber and James O'Connor -- Anatomy of environmental racism / Robert D. Bullard -- Building a new vision : feminist, green socialism / Mary Mellor -- The promise of environmental democracy / John O'Connor -- Creating a culture of destruction : gender, militarism, and the environment / Joni Seager -- Environmental consequences of urban growth and blight / Cynthia Hamilton -- Feminism and ecology / Ynestra King -- Cultural activism and environmental justice / Richard Hofrichter -- A society based on conquest cannot be sustained : native peoples and the environmental crisis / Winona LaDuke -- Blue-collar women and toxic-waste protests : the process of politicization / Celene Krauss -- Acknowledging the past, confronting the present : environmental justice in the 1990s / Richard Moore and Louis Head -- Building on our past, planning for our future : communities of color and the quest for environmental justice / Vernice D. Miller -- Unequal protection : the racial divide in environmental law / Marianne Lavelle and Marcia A. Coyle -- Ecofeminism and grass-roots environmentalism in the United States / Barbara Epstein -- The effects of occupational injury, illness, and disease on the health status of black Americans ; a review / Beverly Hendrix Wright and Robert D. Bullard -- Farm workers at risk / Cesar Chavez -- Work : the most dangerous environment / Charles Noble -- Labor's environmental agenda in the new corporate climate / Eric Mann -- Corporate plundering of third-world resources / Robert Weissman -- Global economic counterrevolution : the dynamics of impoverishment and marginalization / Walden Bello -- Trading away the environment : free-trade agreements and environmental degradation / Mark Ritchie -- Economics and environmental justice : rethinking North-South relations / Martin Khor Kok Peng -- Solidarity with the third world : building an international environmental-justice movement / Chris Kiefer and Medea Benjamin.

Call Number

JFE 03-11359

ISBN

0874807379 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002110269

OCLC

50925778

Title

Toxic struggles : the theory and practice of environmental justice / edited by Richard Hofrichter ; foreword by Michel Gelobter.

Imprint

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-242) and index.

Added Author

Hofrichter, Richard.

Research Call Number

JFE 03-11359