The Quest for Environmental Justice

Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-57805-120-5
Verlag: Catapult

Buch, Englisch, 413 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

In 1994, Sierra Club Books was proud to publish Dr. Robert D. Bullard's a collection of essays contributed by some of the leading participants in the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, which focused attention on "environmental racism"--racial discrimination in environmental policymaking and the enforcement of environmental protection laws and regulations. Now, picking up where that groundbreaking anthology left off, Dr. Bullard has assembled a new collection of essays that capture the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots level around the world and challenging government and industry policies and globalization trends that place people of color and the poor at special risk. Part I presents an overview of the early environmental justice movement and highlights key leadership roles assumed by women activists. Part II examines the lives of people living in "sacrifice zones"--toxic corridors (such as Louisiana's infamous "Cancer Alley") where high concentrations of polluting industries are found. Part III explores land use, land rights, resource extraction, and sustainable development conflicts, including Chicano struggles in America's Southwest. Part IV examines human rights and global justice issues, including an analysis of South Africa's legacy of environmental racism and the corruption and continuing violence plaguing the oil-rich Niger delta. Together, the diverse contributors to this much-anticipated follow-up anthology present an inspiring and illuminating picture of the environmental justice movement in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bullard, Robert D.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword --Congresswoman Maxine Waters Preface--Peggy Morrow Shepard Acknowledgments Introduction--Robert D. Bullard PART I A LEGACY OF INJUSTICE Chapter 1 - Environmental Justice in the Twenty-first Century Robert D. Bullard Chapter 2 - Neighborhoods "Zoned" for Garbage Robert D. Bullard Chapter 3 - Women Warriors of Color on the Front Line Robert D. Bullard and Damu Smith PART II THE ASSAULT ON FENCE-LINE COMMUNITIES Chapter 4 - Living and Dying in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" Beverly Wright Chapter 5 - Environmental Inequity in Metropolitan Los Angeles Manuel Pastor Jr., James L. Sadd, and Rachel Morello-Frosch Chapter 6 - Toxic Racism on a New Jersey Waterfront Olga Pomar PART III LAND RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Chapter 7 - Anatomy of the Urban Parks Movement: Equal Justice, Democracy, and Livability in Los Angeles Robert García and Erica S. Flores Chapter 8 - Resource Wars against Native Peoples Al Gedicks Chapter 9 - Tierra y Vida: Chicano Environmental Justice Struggles in the Southwest Devon G. Peña PART IV HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE Chapter 10 - Environmental Reparations Robin Morris Collin and Robert Collin Chapter 11 - Vieques: The Land, the People, the Struggle, the Future Déborah Berman Santana Chapter 12 - Alienation and Militancy in the Niger Delta: Petroleum, Politics, and Democracy in Nigeria Oronto Douglas, Von Kemedi, Ike Okonta, and Michael Watts Chapter 13 - Environmental Racism and Neoliberal Disorder in South Africa David A. McDonald Chapter 14 - Addressing Global Poverty, Pollution, and Human Rights Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres Appendix A - Principles of Environmental Justice Appendix B - NGO Language on Environmental Racism Notes Selected Bibliography About the Contributors Index