Equity and the environment

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Freudenburg, William R., Wilkinson, Robert C.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2008.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed.
• Σειρά: Research in social problems and public policy ; v. 15.
• Θέματα: Environmental justice.; Conservation of the environment.; Political Science > Public Policy > Environmental policy.; Electronic books.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.