The Law of Environmental Justice Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : American Bar Association
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

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

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 49,5 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

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

• Publisher : Environmental Law Institute
• File Size : 35,5 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

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

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 16 May 2012

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

• Publisher : Indigenous Justice
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

"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

• Publisher : UBC Press
• File Size : 23,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2010

The concept of environmental justice has offered a new direction for social movements and public policy in recent decades, and researchers worldwide now position social equity as a prerequisite for

• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

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

• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• File Size : 23,5 Mb
• Release Date : 31 July 2015

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

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 34,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 May 2012

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,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 53,7 Mb
• Release Date : 21 July 2022

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