Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles : Race, Class and the Environment PDF
Edited by Camacho David E. Camacho
Description
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
Information
-
Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822396635
Information
-
Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822396635