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Environmental Justice:

Issues, Policies, and Solutions
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In Environmental Justice, leading thinkers of the environmental justice movement take a direct look at the failure of ""top down"" public policy to effectively deal with issues of environmental equity.The book provides a startling look at pressing social and environmental problems and charts a course for future action. Among the topics considered are: the history of the social justice movement the role of the professional in working with community groups methods of dealing with environmental problems at the international level participatory national policy for environmental education, energy, industrial development, and housing and sustainable development.Contributors include Robert Bullard, Deeohn Ferris, Tom B.K. Goldtooth, David Hahn-Baker, Beverly Wright, Ivette Perfecto, Patrick West, and others.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
Chapter 1. Issues and Potential Policies and Solutions for Environmental Justice: An Overview
Chapter 2. Environmental Justice and the Professional
Chapter 3. Health-based Standards: What Role in Environmental Justice?
Chapter 4. Environmental Equity Justice Centers: A Response to Inequity
Chapter 5. Environmentalists and Environmental Justice Policy
Chapter 6. Residential Segregation and Urban Quality of Life
Chapter 7. The Net Impact of Environmental Protection on Jobs and the Economy
Chapter 8. Toward a New Industrial Policy
Chapter 9. Environmental Equity and Economic Policy: Expanding the Agenda of Reform
Chapter 10. Minorities and Toxic Fish Consumption: Implications for Point Discharge Policy in Michigan
Chapter 11. Indigenous Nations: Summary of Sovereignty and Its Implications for Environmental Protection
Chapter 12. Toward a Democratic Community of Communities: Creating a New Future with Agriculture and Rural America
Chapter 13. Sustainable Agriculture Embedded in a Global Sustainable Future: Agriculture in the United States and Cuba
Chapter 14. Rethinking International Environmental Policy in the Late Twentieth Century
 
Summary
Appendix 1. Executive Order 12898
Appendix 2. Executive Summary of the Recommendations: from the Symposium on Health Research and Needs to Ensure Environmental Justice
References
Index
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