Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles : Race, Class and the Environment

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camacho, David E.

Contributor:

Cuesta Camacho, David E, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice--Case studies.

Environmental justice.

Environmental policy.

Local Subjects:

Environmental justice--Case studies.

Environmental justice.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the United States, few issues are more socially divisive than the location of hazardous waste facilities and other environmentally harmful enterprises. Do the negative impacts of such polluters fall disproportionately on African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian Americans? Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles discusses how political, economic, social, and cultural factors contribute to local government officials’ consistent location of hazardous and toxic waste facilities in low-income neighborhoods and how, as a result, low-income groups suffer disproportionately from the regressive impacts of environmental policy.David E. Camacho’s collection of essays examines the value-laden choices behind the public policy that determines placement of commercial environmental hazards, points to the underrepresentation of people of color in the policymaking process, and discusses the lack of public advocates representing low-income neighborhoods and communities. This book combines empirical evidence and case studies—from the failure to provide basic services to the “colonias” in El Paso County, Texas, to the race for water in Nevada—and covers in great detail the environmental dangers posed to minority communities, including the largely unexamined communities of Native Americans. The contributors call for cooperation between national environmental interest groups and local grassroots activism, more effective incentives and disincentives for polluters, and the adoption by policymakers of an alternative, rather than privileged, perspective that is more sensitive to the causes and consequences of environmental inequities. Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles is a unique collection for those interested in the environment, public policy, and civil rights as well as for students and scholars of political science, race and ethnicity, and urban and regional planning.Contributors. C. Richard Bath, Kate A. Berry, John G. Bretting, David E. Camacho, Jeanne Nienaber Clarke, Andrea K. Gerlak, Peter I. Longo, Diane-Michele Prindeville, Linda Robyn, Stephen Sandweiss, Janet M. Tanski, Mary M. Timney, Roberto E. Villarreal, Harvey L. White

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction // David E. Camacho""; ""I. A Framework for Analysis""; ""The Environmental Justice Movement: A Political Framework // David E. Camacho""; ""The Social Construction of Environmental Justice // Stephen Sandweiss""; ""II. Environmental Injustices""; ""Race, Class, and Environmental Hazards // Harvey L. White""; ""Environmental Racism in Southern Arizona? : The Reality beneath the Rhetoric // Jeanne Nienaber Clarke and Andrea K. Gerlak""; ""Race for Water? : Native Americans, Eurocentrism, and Western Water Policy // Kate A. Berry""

""The Failure to Provide Basic Services to the Colonias of El Paso County: A Case of Environmental Racism? // C. Richard Bath, Janet M. Tanski, and Roberto E. Villarreal""""III. Confronting Environmental Injustices""; ""Environmental Justice and the Role of Indigenous Women Organizing Their Communities // John G. Bretting and Diane-Michele Prindeville""; ""Environmental Injustices and Traditional Environmental Organizations: Potential for Coalition Building // Peter J. Longo""; ""IV. Environmental Justice""; ""Environmental Injustices: Examples from Ohio // Mary M. Timney""

""Bishigendan Akii: Respect the Earth // Linda Robyn and David E. Camacho""""Environmental Ethics as a Political Choice // David E. Camacho""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

9780822396635

0822396637

OCLC:

1125887780