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| ISBN: | 9781597262477
1597262471
9781435633322
1435633326
9781597261630
1597261637
9781597261241
1597261246
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-252) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of the problem; poor and minority communities are often denied the benefits of natural resources and can suffer disproportionate harm from decisions about their management and use. Justice and Natural Resources is the first book devoted to exploring the concept of environmental justice in the realm of natural resources. Contributors consider how decisions about the management and use of natural resources can exacerbate social injustice and the problems of disadvantaged communities. Looking at issues that are predominantly rural and western -- many of them involving Indian reservations, public lands, and resource development activities -- it offers a new and more expansive view of environmental justice. Justice and Natural Resources offers a concise overview of the field of environmental justice and a set of frameworks for understanding it. It expands the previously urban and industrial scope of the movement to include distribution of the burdens and access to the benefits of natural resources, broadening environmental justice to a truly nationwide concern.
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| Other form: | Print version: Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934- Most important fish in the sea. Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, ©2007
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| Publisher's no.: | MWT11450807
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