Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy

by Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Book Overview

Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation--and then bringing them to bear on real-world social issues--she shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population, including Appalachians, African-Americans,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195183576
• ISBN13: 9780195183573
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"