Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline

by J. Timmons Roberts and Melissa M. Toffolon-Weiss

Book Overview

Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline describes four cases in Louisiana in which residents were locked in struggles with industry and government representatives over issues of environmental injustice. Roberts and Toffolon-Weiss explain how, at the end of the twentieth century, situations of environmental injustice were created and eventually resolved. The authors show that conflicts do not occur in a vacuum. Rather, one struggle changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521669006
• ISBN13: 9780521669009
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"