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Sustainability As A Means Of Improving Environmental Justice, Patricia E. Salkin, John C. Dernbach, Donald A. Brown
Sustainability As A Means Of Improving Environmental Justice, Patricia E. Salkin, John C. Dernbach, Donald A. Brown
Patricia E. Salkin
This article explains why environmental justice provides much of the foundation for sustainable development, and shows how sustainability can improve our ability to achieve environmental justice. The article first explains a basic but often unrecognized truth about environmental policy: environmental pollution and degradation, sooner or later, harms humans. Both sustainable development and environmental justice respond to this problem, though in somewhat different ways. Sustainable development, however, suggests a broader set of tools to address this problem than are often employed for environmental justice. The article shows how four broad approaches — more and better sustainability options, law for sustainability, visionary …
The State Of Environmental Justice Since In The United States Since Summit Ii: Timeline-Milestones 2002-2011, Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, Angel O. Torres
The State Of Environmental Justice Since In The United States Since Summit Ii: Timeline-Milestones 2002-2011, Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, Angel O. Torres
Robert D Bullard
In preparation for the four-day Second National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, held in Washington, DC in October 2002, the Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) compiled the Environmental Justice Timeline/Milestones - 1964-2002 report, one of the first comprehensive documents to chronicle accomplishments of the EJ Movement. The milestones were later updated in the 2007 United Church of Christ Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty – 1987-2007 report and more recently in Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States: Strategies for Building Environmentally Just, Sustainable, and Livable Communities, a book published this month by the American Public Health …
Linking Environmental Justice And Pollution Prevention: Livable Communities And Cleaner Production, Robert Gottlieb
Linking Environmental Justice And Pollution Prevention: Livable Communities And Cleaner Production, Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
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Symposium Introduction: Contemporary Issues At The Intersection Of Public Health And Environmental Law, Patricia Ross Mccubbin
Symposium Introduction: Contemporary Issues At The Intersection Of Public Health And Environmental Law, Patricia Ross Mccubbin
Patricia Ross McCubbin
This article serves as an introduction to the forthcoming symposium in the Southern Illinois University Law Journal, which presents the proceedings of a conference held at the SIU School of Law on February 27, 2009, on “Contemporary Issues at the Intersection of Public Health and Environmental Law.”