Research Catalog

Title

Chronicles from the environmental justice frontline / J. Timmons Roberts, Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss.

Author

Roberts, J. Timmons.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Toffolon-Weiss, Melissa M.

Description

xi, 279 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book provides a look into the environmental justice movement as it plays out in four landmark struggles at the turn of the twenty-first century. Roberts and Toffolon-Weiss chronicle the stories of everyday people who decide to battle what they perceive as injustice when their minority neighborhoods are disproportionately threatened by industrial pollution. The four cases detailed here are epic struggles: conflicts between U.S. environmental and civil rights agencies over the siting of a chemical plant and a nuclear facility in ex-slave communities; a class-action lawsuit by 300 Cajun and Houma Indian residents over a huge oilfield waste dump built next to their tiny town; and an uphill political and legal battle for relocation by a middle-class African-American neighborhood built with federal assistance atop a reclaimed landfill." "Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline is intended for general readers, policymakers, businesspeople, and scholars wishing to learn about these landmark cases and about environmental justice politics more broadly. It will also benefit environmental and social justice activists and students in environmental studies, law, planning, administration, communications, business ethics, sociology, geography, and political science."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Environmental justice > Louisiana > Case studies
• Environmental policy > Louisiana > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-266) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Environmental justice struggles in perspecitve -- Roots of environmental injustice in Louisiana -- Nation's first major environmental justice judgment: the LES uranium enrichment facility -- EPA's environmental justice test case: the Snintech PVC plant -- Media savvy Cajuns and Houma Indians: fighting an oilfield waste dump in Grand Bois -- Stress and the politics of living on a superfund site: the Agriculture Street Municipal Landfill -- Empire strikes back: backlash and implications for the future.

ISBN

• 0521660629
• 0521669006 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00067450^

OCLC

• 45505920
• SCSB-10438545

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library