The Law Of Environmental Justice

Author : Michael Gerrard,Sheila R. Foster
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 1604420839

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The Law of Environmental Justice by Michael Gerrard,Sheila R. Foster Pdf

Environmental justice is the concept that minority and low-income individuals, communities and populations should not be disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards, and that they should share fully in making the decisions that affect their environment. This volume examines the sources of environmental justice law and how evolving regulations and court decisions impact projects around the country.

Author : Clifford Rechtschaffen,Eileen P. Gauna,Catherine A. O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Environmental justice
ISBN : 1594605955

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Environmental Justice by Clifford Rechtschaffen,Eileen P. Gauna,Catherine A. O'Neill Pdf

Environmental justice is a significant and dynamic contemporary development in environmental law. Rechtschaffen, Gauna and new coauthor O'Neill provide an accessible compilation of interdisciplinary materials for studying environmental justice, interspersed with extensive notes, questions, and a teacher's manual with practice exercises designed to facilitate classroom discussion. It integrates excerpts from empirical studies, cases, agency decisions, informal agency guidance, law reviews, and other academic literature, as well as community-generated documents. This second edition includes new chapters addressing climate change, international environmental justice, and a capstone case study. It also adds expanded coverage of risk and the public health, empirical environmental justice research, and environmental justice for American Indian peoples.

Author : Barry E. Hill
Publisher : Environmental Law Institute
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 1585761249

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Environmental Justice by Barry E. Hill Pdf

Environmental risks and harms affect certain geographic areas and populations more than others. The environmental justice movement is aimed at having the public and private sectors address this disproportionate burden of risk and exposure to pollution in minority and/or low-income communities, and for those communities to be engaged in the decision-making processes. Environmental Justice provides an overview of this defining problem and explores the growth of the environmental justice movement. It analyzes the complex mixture of environmental laws and civil rights legal theories adopted in environmental justice litigation. Teachers will have online access to the more than 100 page Teachers Manual.

Author : Laura Westra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136566790

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Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations by Laura Westra Pdf

The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled in common law and under international legal instruments. It provides comprehensive coverage of the arguments over international legal instruments, key legal cases and examples including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, industrial disasters, clean water provision, diet, HIV/AIDS, environmental racism and climate change. Also covered are international agreements and objectives as diverse as the Kyoto Protocol, the Millennium Development Goals and international trade. The result is the most controversial and thorough examination to date of the subject and the enormous ramifications and challenges it poses to every aspect of international and domestic environmental, human rights, trade and public health law and policy.

Author : Laura Westra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136566868

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Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Laura Westra Pdf

More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the worlds indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, environment and way of life through outside factors such as climate change and globalization, their rights in these and other respects are still not fully recognized in international law. In this incisive book, Laura Westra deftly reveals the lethal effects that damage to ecological integrity can have on communities. Using examples in national and international case law, she demonstrates how their lack of sufficient legal rights leaves indigenous peoples defenceless, time and again, in the face of governments and businesses who have little effective incentive to consult with them (let alone gain their consent) in going ahead with relocations, mining plans and more. The historical background and current legal instruments are discussed and, through examples from the Americas, Africa, Oceania and the special case of the Arctic, a picture emerges of how things must change if indigenous communities are to survive. It is a warning to us all from the example of those who live most closely in tune with nature and are the first to feel the impact when environmental damage goes unchecked.

Author : Karen Jarratt-Snider,Marianne O. Nielsen
Publisher : Indigenous Justice
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780816540839

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Indigenous Environmental Justice by Karen Jarratt-Snider,Marianne O. Nielsen Pdf

"With connections to traditional homelands being at the heart of Native identity, environmental justice is of heightened importance to Indigenous communities. Not only do irresponsible and exploitative environmental policies harm the physical and financial health of Indigenous communities, they also cause spiritual harm by destroying the land and wildlife that are held in a place of exceptional reverence for Indigenous peoples. Combining elements of legal issues, human rights issues, and sovereignty issues, Indigenous Environmental Justice creates a clear example of community resilience in the face of corporate greed"--

Author : Luke W. Cole,Sheila R. Foster
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814715370

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From the Ground Up by Luke W. Cole,Sheila R. Foster Pdf

Cole (director, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation's Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment) and Foster (law, Rutgers University) examine the movement for environmental justice in the United States. Tracing the movement's roots and illustrating the historical and contemporary causes of environmental racism, they combine their analysis with a narrative account of struggles from around the country--including those in Kettleman City, California, Chester, Pennsylvania, and Dilkon, Arizona. In so doing, they consider the transformative effects this movement has had on individuals, communities, and environmental policy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : PAUL. MULDOON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177255572X

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INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY IN CANADA. by PAUL. MULDOON Pdf

Author : Jonas Ebbesson,Phoebe N. Okowa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521879682

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Environmental Law and Justice in Context by Jonas Ebbesson,Phoebe N. Okowa Pdf

political science and international relations." --Book Jacket.

Author : Paul Martin,Sadeq Z. Bigdeli,Trevor Daya-Winterbottom,Willemien du Plessis,Amanda Kennedy
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784719425

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The Search for Environmental Justice by Paul Martin,Sadeq Z. Bigdeli,Trevor Daya-Winterbottom,Willemien du Plessis,Amanda Kennedy Pdf

This thoughtful book provides an overview of the major developments in the theory and practice of Ôenvironmental justiceÕ. It illustrates the direction of the evolution of rights of nature and exposes the diverse meanings and practical uses of the conc

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental justice
ISBN : LCCN:2008008208

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Law of Environmental Justice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Randall Abate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Climate change mitigation
ISBN : 1585761818

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Climate Justice by Randall Abate Pdf

Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Author : Sumudu A. Atapattu,Carmen G. Gonzalez,Sara L. Seck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009281933

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The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development by Sumudu A. Atapattu,Carmen G. Gonzalez,Sara L. Seck Pdf

Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals, environmental justice struggles are growing all over the world. These struggles are not isolated injustices, but symptoms of interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the few while inflicting misery on the many and threatening ecological collapse. This handbook offers critical perspectives on the multi-dimensional, intersectional nature of environmental injustice and the cross-cutting forms of oppression that unite and divide these struggles, including gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity. The work sheds new light on the often-neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to human rights and environmental justice. Using a variety of legal frameworks and case studies from around the world, this volume illustrates the importance of overcoming the fragmentation of these legal frameworks and social movements in order to develop holistic solutions that promote justice and protect the planet's ecosystems at a time of intensifying economic and ecological crisis.

Author : Rachel Stein
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813534275

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New Perspectives on Environmental Justice by Rachel Stein Pdf

Women make up the vast majority of activists and organizers of grassroots movements fighting against environmental ills that threaten poor and people of color communities. [This] collection of essays ... pays tribute to the ... contributions women have made in these endeavors. The writers offer varied examples of environmental justice issues such as children's environmental-health campaigns, cancer research, AIDS/HIV activism, the Environmental Genome Project, and popular culture, among many others. Each one focuses on gender and sexuality as crucial factors in women's or gay men's activism and applies environmental justice principles to related struggles for sexual justice. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors offer multiple vantage points on gender, sexuality, and activism.-Back cover.

Author : Elia Apostolopoulou,Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429763090

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The Right to Nature by Elia Apostolopoulou,Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez Pdf

Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world. In response, various environmental movements have emerged opposing the neoliberal restructuring of environmental policies using arguments that often bridge traditional divisions between the environmental and labour agendas. The Right to Nature explores the differing experiences of a number of environmental-social movements and struggles from the point of view of both activists and academics. This collection attempts to both document the social-ecological impacts of neoliberal attempts to exploit non-human nature in the post-crisis context and to analyse the opposition of emerging environmental movements and their demands for a radically different production of nature based on social needs and environmental justice. It also provides a necessary space for the exchange of ideas and experiences between academics and activists and aims to motivate further academic-activist collaborations around alternative and counter-hegemonic re-thinking of environmental politics. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and activists interested in environmental policy, environmental justice, social and environmental movements.