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The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice

by Christopher H. Foreman
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780815728771
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Brookings Institution Press
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  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: GBP 20.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 313 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Environmental Science

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.

"Christopher H. Foreman Jr. is a senior fellow in the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution and the author of The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice (Brookings, 1998), Plagues, Products, and Politics: Emergent Public Health Hazards and National Policymaking (Brookings, 1994), and Signals from the Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social Regulation (Yale, 1988)."

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