Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 272
Trim: 5¾ x 9
978-0-7425-1249-8 • Paperback • June 2001 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
978-0-7425-7950-7 • eBook • June 2001 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Laura Westra is professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Windsor and the author or editor of numerous books, including An Environmental Proposal for Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), Faces of Environmental Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), Perspectives on Ecological Integrity (Kluwer), The Greeks and the Environment (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) and Technology and Values (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998). Bill Lawson is professor of philosophy at Michigan State University.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 Foundations
Chapter 5 Decision Making
Chapter 6 Environmental Justice: A National Priority
Chapter 7 Living in the City: Urban United States and Environmental Justice
Chapter 8 Just Garbage
Chapter 9 Black Trash
Part 10 Racism in North America
Chapter 11 Africville: Environmental Racism
Chapter 12 The Faces of Environmental Racism: Titusville, Alabama, and BFI
Chapter 13 Consent, Equity, and Environmental Justice: A Louisiana Case Study
Chapter 14 Other Faces: Latinos and Environmental justice
Part 15 Racism in Africa
Chapter 16 Multinational Corporations, Developed Nations and Environmental Racism: Toxic Waste, Oil Exploration and Eco-catastrophe
Chapter 17 Somalia: Environmental Degradation and Environmental Racism
Chapter 18 South Africa: Environmental Sustainability Needs Empowerment of Women
This wide-ranging collection of essays . . . is vivid and rigorous.
— Bernard Boxill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
A compelling collection . . . [on] a global issue that demands our immediate attention.
— Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of Blues Legend and Black Feminism
Within the context of civil rights, the book clearly illustrates the role of environmental health and justice.
— Choice Reviews
This volume portrays extremely well the diversity of perpetrators and victims of environmental injustice around the world. The book makes a strong contribution to the literature, and it is one of the few volumes to recognize environmental justice as a pressing domestic and international issue concurrently.
— Environment
In its second edition Faces of Environmental Racism remains an accessible and penetrating introduction to the issue of environmental racism in North America and as perpetrated in Africa by multi-national corporations based in industrialised western nations.
— Environmental Values
Westra and Wenz have provided an invaluable and long overdue anthology in which all essays . . . provide insights not available elsewhere. Faces is accessible, yet challenging, and should be required reading in environmental ethics and policy courses, and would be a valuable supplement in social, political, and ethnic studies courses as well. . . . [and] provides a compelling cultural mirror of environmental injustice from which we cannot turn away.
— Shai Collins-Chobanian, University of Arizona, West; Environmental Ethics