Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, and Solutions

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559634170
• ISBN13: 9781559634175
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Good book on a serious problem.

This book gives good insight to the topic of environmental justice. If you want to better understand the issue of environmental justice worldwide,, this is a great book to read. The book has various writers for each chapter of the book.