Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm

This book examines environmental justice as a public policy concern andsuggests a new methodology for evaluating environmental justice problems. EdwardoLao Rhodes makes the case that race and class were not a major concern ofenvironmental policy until the 1990s. He looks at public policy concerns andmethodological approaches to the issues, and he discusses a case of hazardous wastedisposal, which leads to policy recommendations for sharing risk. Throughout, Rhodeslinks these issues to international environmental justice programs, to issues ofnational sovereignty and the paternalism of developed nations toward theunderdeveloped world, and to notions of economic necessity. Preface and Acknowledgments Part I. The Dynamics of Environmental Justice 1. Introduction 2. Forms of Environmental Justice 3. What Has Gone Before: Why Race Was Not on the Original Environmental Agenda 4. The Evolution of Environmental Justice as a Policy Issue: A Movement Whose Time Has Come 5. Misconceptions about Minority Attitudes toward Environmental Issues 6. The EPA: An Agency with an Attitude Part II. Policy Analysis of Environmental Justice 7. Environmental Justice through the Lens of Policy Analysis: Why Should Government Get Involved? 8. The Measurement of Environmental Justice: Some Rules of Engagement 9. A New Way of Looking at the Same Old Numbers: Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluate Environmental Quality Part III. A Case, a Summary, and Some Conclusions 10. A Case of Environmental Justice: The Disposal of Hazardous Material in Noxubee County, Mississippi 11. Policy Directions and Recommendations 12. Environmental Justice: A New Paradigm-A Time of Change Appendix A: Principles of Environmental Justice Notes Bibliography Index