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Environmental Injustice in the United States provides systematic insight into the social, economic, and political dynamics of environmental decision-making, and the impacts of those decisions on minority communities. The first part of the book examines closely the history of the environmental justice movement and the scholarly literature to date, with a discussion about how the issue made the public agenda in the first place. The second part of the book is a unique quantitative analysis of the relationship among race, class, political mobilization, and environmental harm at three levels-- state, county, and city. Despite the initial skepticism of the authors, their study finds both race and class to be significant variables in explaining patterns of environmental harm. The third part of the book then offers policy recommendations to decisionmakers, based on the book's findings. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2001.
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The environmental justice movement, now in its fourth decade, and the problem of environmental injustice have finally received the kind of sustained empirical analysis they deserve. Lester, Allen, and Hill develop a comprehensive model to test whether environmental harms truly are disproportionately concentrated among racial minorities (African Americans and Hispanics) and the poor. The authors (1) divide the dependent variable (environmental harm) into useful subcategories, i.e., pollution (air and water) and waste (hazardous, toxic, and solid); (2) aggregate the harm at three different levels (state, county, and city) and across three different time periods (pre-1990, 1993, and 1995); and (3) control for competing independent variables such as population and manufacturing density, political culture, and interest group activity. Overall, they find that, holding rival explanations constant, class and especially race do make a difference. No longer can the connection between race and environmental harm be dismissed as the byproduct of an underspecified model. This impressive work ably summarizes all previous empirical research on environmental justice. Its authors bring order to a disparate literature and assess current and potential federal and state initiatives in light of their findings. Their book will make a valuable addition to courses on research methods in political science as well as environmental politics. Undergraduates and above. J. Simeone Illinois Wesleyan University
目录
List of Figures and Tables | p. ix |
Preface and Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
1 Introduction: The Nature of the Problem | p. 1 |
2 Environmental Injustice Research: Reviewing the Evidence | p. 9 |
3 Environmental Justice: Getting on the Public Agenda | p. 21 |
4 Modeling Environmental Injustice: Concepts, Measures, Hypotheses, and Method of Analysis | p. 57 |
5 Environmental Injustice in America's States | p. 79 |
6 Environmental Injustice in America's Counties | p. 113 |
7 Environmental Injustice in America's Cities | p. 133 |
8 Summary and Conclusions from the Multilevel Analysis | p. 149 |
9 Existing Federal and State Policies for Environmental Justice: Problems and Prospects | p. 159 |
10 Designing An Effective Policy for Environmental Justice: Implications and Recommendations | p. 173 |
References | p. 189 |
About the Authors | p. 203 |
Index | p. 205 |