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Urban environmental justice. Third Annual Stein Center Symposium on Contemporary Urban Challenges

Author
various authors
Journal/Series
Fordham Urban Law Journal | Vol. 21(3); 431 - 856; 427 p.
Date
1994
Source
IUCN (ID: ANA-054878)
Publisher | Place of publication
Fordham University School of Law | New York, NY, USA
Language
English
Country/Territory
United States of America
Subject
Land & soil
Keyword
Urban land Equity Public participation Waste disposal
Abstract

Contents: (1) Environmental burdens and democratic justice (2) City versus countryside: Environmental equity in context (3) The victims of NIMBY? (4) Environmental justice litigation: Another stone in David ' s sling (5) The question of risk: Incorporating community perceptions into environmental risk assessments (6) Race, gender, age, and disproportionate impact: What can we do about the failure to protect the most vulnerable? (7) Achieving environmental justice: The role of occupational health (8) Issues of classification in environmental equity: How we manage is how we measure (9) Communities of color and hazardous waste cleanup: Expanding public participation in the federal superfund program (10) Balancing the scales of environmental justice (11) Planning, power and politics: A case study of the land use and siting history of the North River water pollution control plant (12) The visible spectrum (13) Issues of community empowerment (14) Notes from the front line (15) Protecting endangered communities (16) Compensated siting proposals: Is it time to pay attention? (17) Environmental justice and sustainability: Is there a critical nexus in the case of waste disposal or treatmentt facility siting? (18) The meaning of urban environmental justice