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Reconciling Environmental Justice With Climate Change Mitigation: A Case Study Of Nc Swine Cafos, D. Lee Miller, Ryke Longest
Reconciling Environmental Justice With Climate Change Mitigation: A Case Study Of Nc Swine Cafos, D. Lee Miller, Ryke Longest
Faculty Scholarship
For thirty years, the swine industry has externalized severe environmental and health harms onto poor communities of color in Eastern North Carolina. This “Big Pig” problem is caused by the confinement, consolidation, and concentration of industrial hog operations within the low, flat, and economically marginalized Coastal Plain. Big Pig’s rise was not inevitable. As recently as 1982, more than 11,000 small swine farms freckled nearly all of North Carolina’s 100 counties. Then came the “boom” of consolidation and industrialization that transformed hog production into a highly consolidated and vertically integrated industry.
The Long Environmental Justice Movement, Jedediah Purdy
The Long Environmental Justice Movement, Jedediah Purdy
Faculty Scholarship
The standpoint of environmental justice has become integral to environmental law in the last thirty years. Environmental justice criticizes mainstream environmental law and advocacy institutions on three main fronts: for paying too little attention to the distributive effects of environmental policy; for emphasizing elite and professional advocacy over participation in decision making by affected communities; and for adhering to a woods-and-waters view of which problems count as “environmental” that disregards the importance of neighborhoods, workplaces, and cities. This Article highlights the existence of a “long environmental justice movement” that, like the long movements for racial equality and labor organizing, put …
Poisoning The Poor For Profit: The Injustice Of Exporting Electronic Waste To Developing Countries, Eric V. Hull
Poisoning The Poor For Profit: The Injustice Of Exporting Electronic Waste To Developing Countries, Eric V. Hull
Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
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The Co-Evolution Of Sustainable Development And Environmental Justice: Cooperation, Then Competition, Then Conflict, J. B. Ruhl
Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
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Pollution Trading And Environmental Injustice: Los Angeles’ Failed Experiment In Air Quality Policy, Richard Toshiyuki Drury, Michael E. Belliveau, J. Scott Kuhn, Shipra Bansal
Pollution Trading And Environmental Injustice: Los Angeles’ Failed Experiment In Air Quality Policy, Richard Toshiyuki Drury, Michael E. Belliveau, J. Scott Kuhn, Shipra Bansal
Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
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Environmental Sustainability And Environmental Justice At The International Level: Traces Of Tension And Traces Of Synergy, Donald T. Hornstein
Environmental Sustainability And Environmental Justice At The International Level: Traces Of Tension And Traces Of Synergy, Donald T. Hornstein
Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
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