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The roots of the environmental justice movement of the last 30 years can be traced to urban neighborhoods and rural southern communities, where illness patterns observed by epidemiologists in poor and minority neighborhoods were linked to business and public policy decisions that cast a disproportional share of environmental impact on those neighborhoods. This book shifts that discussion by applying the lessons learned from the movement to natural resource issues, particular in the North American West. The essays argue that the inequitable distribution of environmental costs and benefits reaches far beyond the industrial siting and pollution abatement focus of the traditional environmental justice movement to include natural resource extraction, public land management, and preservation. The essay authors were asked to address three integrating questions: (1) What claims are--and should be--the concerns of environmental justice? (2) What communities should have their interests championed under the banner of environmental justice? (3) How do we remedy existing injustices and prevent future ones? Specific essay topics include the social justice implications of devolved collaboration, tribal sovereignty, forest management, water rights allocation, wildland preservation, and mineral development. Recommended for lower- and upper-division undergraduate through environmental law, environmental policy, and civil rights collections. S. Hollenhorst University of Idaho
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