The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, & Pedagogy

by Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, Rachel Stein

Book Overview

From the First National People of Color Congress on Environmental Leadership to WTO street protests of the new millennium, environmental justice activists have challenged the mainstream movement by linking social inequalities to the uneven distribution of environmental dangers. Grassroots movements in poor communities and communities of color strive to protect neighborhoods and worksites from environmental degradation and struggle to gain equal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816522073
• ISBN13: 9780816522071
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"