Environmental Justice : Law, Policy, & Regulation
Environmental justice is a significant and dynamic contemporary development in environmental law. Rechtschaffen, Gauna and new coauthor O'Neill provide an accessible compilation of interdisciplinary materials for studying environmental justice, interspersed with extensive notes, questions, and a teacher's manual with practice exercises designed to facilitate classroom discussion. It integrates excerpts from empirical studies, cases, agency decisions, informal agency guidance, law reviews, and...
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Environmental justice is a significant and dynamic contemporary development in environmental law. Rechtschaffen, Gauna and new coauthor O'Neill provide an accessible compilation of interdisciplinary materials for studying environmental justice, interspersed with extensive notes, questions, and a teacher's manual with practice exercises designed to facilitate classroom discussion. It integrates excerpts from empirical studies, cases, agency decisions, informal agency guidance, law reviews, and other academic literature, as well as community- generated documents. This second edition includes new chapters addressing climate change, international environmental justice, and a capstone case study. It also adds expanded coverage of risk and the public health, empirical environmental justice research, and environmental justice for American Indian peoples.
Ch. 1 Overview of the Environmental Justice Movement 3Ch. 2 The Evidence 35Ch. 3 Theories of Causation 73Ch. 4 American Indians and Environmental Justice 107Ch. 5 Regulation and the Administrative State 139Ch. 6 Risk and Health 175Ch. 7 Standard Setting 213Ch. 8 Permits and Public Enforcement 249Ch. 9 Contaminated Properties 285Ch. 10 Governmental Initiatives to Address Environmental Justice 317Ch. 11 Land Use Planning, Environmental Review, and Information Disclosure Laws 355Ch. 12 Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change 389Ch. 13 Litigation, Citizen Enforcement, and Common Law Remedies 433Ch. 14 Constitutional and Civil Rights Claims 471Index 519
