Young to middle-aged residents of impoverished urban areas suffer extra-ordinary rates of
excess mortality, to which deaths from chronic disease contribute heavily. Understanding of …

The environmental justice literature has found that the poor and people of color are
disproportionately exposed to pollution. This literature has sparked a broad activist …

The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage
around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between …

Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most
commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by …

Argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are
compatible Popularized in the movies Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action,“environmental …

Environmental justice is both a vocabulary for political opportunity, mobilization and action,
and a policy principle to guide public decision making. It emerged initially in the US, and …

Ecological causes are championed not only by lobbyists or hikers. While mainstream
environmentalism is usually characterized by well-financed, highly structured organizations …

A theoretically driven comparison of sustainability programs in American cities, updated with
the latest research and additional case studies. Today most major cities have undertaken …

The third edition of this major legal guide has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover
recent events and important emerging issues. Additional material includes analysis of and …

Professor Been argues that the major studies that purport to show that locally undesirable
land uses (LULUs) have been disproportionately sited in poor and minority neighborhoods …