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- Title: Race, Poverty and the Environment: Toward a Global Perspective (Essay)
- Author : Public Administration Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
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- Size : 279 KB
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THE CONTEXT It could be argued that none of American environmentalism's constituent elements holds greater transformative potential than the environmental justice (EJ) movement. The EJ discourse has brought a new range of environmental issues to the fore, including waste disposal site selection, the location of potentially hazardous economic activities, and the asymmetry of health risks found in the modern American home (ATSDR, 1988; Goldman, 1992; Lavelle & Coyle, 1992). But more than that, EJ lends a new dimension to virtually every decision regarding environmental degradation (Rhodes, 2003). Where before we saw only issues of man versus the environment we are now also haunted by the spectre of man versus man. Every problem of environmental protection now seems to present a challenge to both our scientific imagination and our sense of distributional justice. EJ is, so to speak, the other side of the environmental coin. And while it has complicated the task of protecting the environment, the EJ movement has shown a way to make that task even more worthy of our attention. If we are sufficiently enlightened to both protect the environment and create more just institutions, we will have shown that saving mankind was truly worth the effort.
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