Research Catalog

Title

Faces of environmental racism : confronting issues of global justice / edited by Laura Westra and Bill E. Lawson.

Publication

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Lawson, Bill E., 1947-
• Westra, Laura

Description

xxvi, 266 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy

Uniform Title

Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy.

Subject

• Environmental policy > North America
• Environmental policy > United States
• Racism > North America
• Racism > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Decision making / Robert D. Bullard -- 2. Environmental justice : a national priority / Clarice E. Gaylord and Elizabeth Bell -- 3. Living for the city : urban United States and environmental justice / Bill E. Lawson -- 4. Just garbage / Peter S. Wenz -- 5. Black trash / Charles W. Mills -- 6. Africville : environmental racism / Howard McCurdy -- 7. The faces of environmental racism : Titusville, Alabama, and BFI / Laura Westra -- 8. consent, equity, and environmental justice : a Louisiana case study / Daniel C. Wigley and Kristin Shrader-Frechette -- 9. Other faces : Latino and environmental justice / Robert Melchior Figueroa -- 10. Multinational corporations, developed nations, and environmental racism : toxic waste, oil exploration, and eco-catastrophe / Segun Ghadegesin -- 11. Somalia : environmental degradation and environment racism / Hussein M. Adam -- 12. South Africa : environmental sustainability needs empowerment of women / R.J.A. Goodland.

ISBN

• 0742512487 (alk. paper)
• 0742512495 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001019091

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library