Environmental Law and Justice in Context
Author: Jonas Ebbesson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 052187968X
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Author: Jonas Ebbesson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 052187968X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →political science and international relations." --Book Jacket.
Author: Michael Gerrard
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 9781604420838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Barry E. Hill
Publisher: Environmental Law Institute
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781585761241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Lorena Martínez Hernández
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-01-29
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1527527395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The need to reassess the discourse of sustainable development in terms of equity and justice has grown rapidly in the last decade. This book explores renewed and distinctive approaches to the sustainability and justice debate, integrating a range of perspectives that include moral philosophy, sociology and law. By bringing together young and senior scholars from the field of global environmental law and governance from around the world, this work is divided into three sections, covering sustainable development and justice, sustainable development in context, and sustainable development and judiciaries. This book will appeal to academics, law practitioners and policy-makers interested in shaping future socio-legal research on global environmental law and governance.
Author: Robin Craig
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 1502
ISBN-13: 9781684672363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Fifth Edition is updated to take account of new developments in the law, new regulations, and new cases, as well as the multiple and ongoing regulatory changes and reversals among the Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations. In addition, the casebook has been modified throughout to call more attention to environmental justice issues. Chapter 1 (RCRA and CERCLA) and Chapter 4 (Clean Air Act) now have expanded discussions of how environmental justice issues arise in the context of pollution control permitting. Chapter 2 (NEPA) includes two of the Standing Rock Sioux decisions about the Dakota Access Pipeline. In addition, the Introduction chapter has been revamped to more thoroughly introduce non-statutory approaches to environmental law, including constitutional and common-law approaches to the public trust doctrine and a brand new section on the Rights of Nature movement, emphasizing the environmental justice and indigenous rights tie-ins to those movements, before shifting to a discussion of why states and the federal government would choose statutes, a theme continued at the beginning of Chapter 1. The challenge of the Fifth Edition is the ongoing changes to environmental regulations in the opening year of the Biden Administration. The Fifth Edition updates through June 2021 and points to resources for keeping track of new developments. It discusses continuing regulatory issues such as climate change under the Clean Air Act and "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act in some detail, emphasizing the issues in contention and explaining why the EPA's regulatory approach continues to evolve.
Author: Robin Kundis Craig
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 1098
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Relying on graphics, flow charts, cases, and administrative materials, it provides a step-by-step introduction to six of the most important federal environmental statutes. The Second Edition will use new cases to allow professors to discuss how global climate change is affecting environmental and natural resource regulation in a variety of contexts. Specifically, climate change will be the centerpiece of new cases involving NEPA, the ESA, the Clean Air Act (Massachusetts v. EPA), and citizen suit standing.
Author: Clifford Rechtschaffen
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594605956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Christopher H. Foreman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780815717379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Are we environmentally victimizing, perhaps even poisoning, our minority and low-income citizens? Proponents of "environmental justice" assert that environmental decisionmaking pays insufficient heed to the interests of those citizens, disproportionately burdens their neighborhoods with hazardous toxins, and perpetuates an insidious "environmental racism." In the first book-length critique of environmental justice advocacy, Christopher Foreman argues that it has cleared significant political hurdles but displays substantial limitations and drawbacks. Activism has yielded a presidential executive order, management reforms at the Environmental Protection Agency, and numerous local political victories. Yet the environmental justice movement is structurally and ideologically unable to generate a focused policy agenda. The movement refuses to confront the need for environmental priorities and trade-offs, politically inconvenient facts about environmental health risks, and the limits of an environmental approach to social justice. Ironically, environmental justice advocacy may also threaten the very constituencies it aspires to serve--distracting attention from the many significant health hazards challenging minority and disadvantaged populations. Foreman recommends specific institutional reforms intended to recast the national dialogue about the stakes of these populations in environmental protection.
Author: Paul Martin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1784719420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Shawkat Alam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-17
Total Pages: 657
ISBN-13: 1107055695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.