Equity and the environment

• Other Authors: Freudenburg, William R., Wilkinson, Robert C.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2008.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 15.
• Subjects: Environmental justice.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849504881; 1849504881; 0762314176; 9780762314171
• ISSN: 0196-1152 ;
• DOI: 10.1016/S0196-1152(2007)15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Around the time of the first 'Earth Day', on April 22, 1970, the academic world joined in a virtual explosion of societal interest in a topic that inherently lies in the confluence between 'social problems' and 'public policy' - the ways in which humans use and abuse th...

Table of Contents:

• Equity and the environment: a pressing need and a new step forward / William R. Freudenburg and Robert C. Wilkinson
• Equity and the environmental justice debate / Paul Mohai
• Equity, unnatural man-made disasters, and race: why environmental justice matters / Robert D. Bullard
• Diversity and the environment: myth-making and the status of minorities in the field / Dorceta E. Taylor
• Extending the reach of ecofeminism: a framework of social science and natural science careers / Anne Statham and Christine Evans
• In the shade of affluence: the inequitable distribution of the urban heat island / Sharon L. Harlan, Anthony J. Brazel, G. Darrel Jenerette, Nancy S. Jones, Larissa Larsen, Lela Prashad and William L. Stefanov
• Equity, vulnerability and resilience in social-ecological systems: a contemporary example from the Russian Arctic / Bruce C. Forbes
• Inequality in the creation of environmental harm: looking for answers from within / Lisa M. Berry
• Is inequality bad for the environment? / James K. Boyce.