NCJ Number
153949
Journal
Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Dated: (Spring 1994) Pages: complete issue
Editor(s)
K N Ainsworth
Date Published
1994
Length
506 pages
Annotation
This journal presents papers from a symposium on environmental injustice, which examined how low-income communities and communities of color in the Nation's cities have been disproportionately burdened by various environmental harms.
Abstract
Some of the specific issues discussed at the symposium included democratic justice, environmental justice litigation, environmental risk assessments, the impact of race and age, the role of occupational health in achieving environmental justice, issues of classification in environmental equity, hazardous waste cleanup in communities of color, land use and urban planning, community empowerment, and protecting endangered communities. The authors of these papers suggest how to evaluate the dimensions of the problem; explore the relationship between environmental justice and other economic and environmental ideals; explore how the problem is perceived from community, corporate, and administrative perspectives; and evaluate the feasibility of various legal, political, administrative, and legislative remedies. Chapter references