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Environmental Justice

Legal Theory and Practice

Barry Hill

Published: 03/31/2009
Publisher: Environmental Law Institute
500 p. 8 x 10
ISBN: 9781585761241
Paperback: $89.95

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Environmental risks and harms affect certain geographic areas and populations more than others. The environmental justice movement is aimed at having the public and private sectors address this disproportionate burden of risk and exposure to pollution in minority and/or low-income communities, and for those communities to be engaged in the decision-making processes.

Environmental Justice provides an overview of this defining problem and explores the growth of the environmental justice movement. It analyzes the complex mixture of environmental laws and civil rights legal theories adopted in environmental justice litigation. Teachers will have online access to the more than 100 page Teachers Manual.

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Barry E. Hill is currently the senior counsel for environmental governance in the Office of International Affairs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has taught environmental justice at the Vermont Law School for 15 years, where he serves on the board of advisors for the Environmental Law Center. He has published numerous articles on environmental law and policy, and environmental justice.

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