Ecolex Logo
The gateway to
environmental law
Search results » Literature

Symposium: Environmental justice - The new wave

Author
various authors
Journal/Series
Virginia Environmental Law Journal | Vol. 14(4); 567 - 784; 218 p.
Date
1995
Source
IUCN (ID: ANA-057326)
Publisher | Place of publication
University of Virginia School of Law | Charlottesville, VA, USA
Language
English
Country/Territory
United States of America
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Human rights Equity Ethics and environment
Abstract

Contents: 1. Developing the vision of environmental justice: A paradigm for achieving healthy and sustainable communities 2. The concept of environmental justice and a reconception of democracy 3. Pollution prevention and participatory research as a methodology for environmental justice 4. The demographics of dumping revisited: Examining the impact of alternative methodologies in environmental justice research 5.The market's response to environmental inequity: We have the solution; What's the problem? 6. Environmental justice: Racial gerrymandering for environmental siting decisions 7. Macho law brains, public citizens, and grassroots activists: Three models of environmental advocacy 8. New public policy tools in the grassroots movement: The Washington office on environmental justice 9. Environmental justice law and the challenges facing urban communities 10. Environmentalism in the Dudley street neighbourhood 11. Environmental justice and title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (The Fair Housing Act) 12. Disparate impacts: The problems of discriminatory intent and the need for community activism 13. Reinvention in the name of environmental justice: A view from state government