Environmental justice in America : a new paradigm / Edwardo Lao Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, Edwardo Lao, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice--United States.

Environmental justice.

Environmental law--United States.

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 263 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1990's. Why this was so, and why awareness of social justice should be an important consideration in thinking about environmental impact, takes up the first part of the book. Part II looks

Contents:

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; One: Environmental Justice; Two: Forms of Environmental Justice; Three: What Has Gone Before - Why Race Was Not on the Original Environmental Agenda; Four: The Evolution of Environmental Justice as a Policy Issue - A Movement Whose Time Has Come; Five: Misconceptions about Minority Attitudes toward Environmental Issues; Six: The EPA, An Agency with an Attitude; Seven: Environmental Justice through the Lens of Policy Analysis - Why Should Government Get Involve; Eight: The Measurement of Environmental Justice - Some Rules of Engagement

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612071980

1-282-07198-X

0-253-10309-6

0-253-10970-1

OCLC:

52051314