The Quest For Environmental Justice
Subtitle: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Published: November 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781578051205
Subjects: Pollution & threats to the environment; Nature/Ecology; Environmental justice; Nature; Environmental Studies; Political aspects; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Nature / General; Earth Sciences - Geology; Human rights
First sentence: Hardly a day passes without the media discovering some community or neighborhood fighting an attempt to build near it a landfill, incinerator, chemical plant, or other polluting facility, or fighting to bring attention to the harmful effects that people are suffering as a result of such an entity already located nearby.