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Sikora, R. I., and Barry, B., eds. (1978). Obligations to Future Generations. Philadelphia Temple University Press. Wenz, P. (1988). Environmental Justice. Albany State University of NewYork Press. 

There was a period when I felt a lot of rage and other strong emotions, when all of a sudden I lost my job, my health care, my income, most of my friends, my home and my status in the country. After my dismissal I spent the first three or four years thinking my life was wasted. I still think that occasionally when I m having a bad moment. But I try to use my anger creatively—by campaigning for environmental justice and civil rights, for example. 

After 1978, Bullard held academic appointments at a number of universities, including Rice (1980), the University of Tennessee (1987-88), the University of California at Berkeley (1988-89), the University of California at Riverside (1989-93), and the University of California at Los Angeles (1993-94). In 1994, Bullard was appointed to his current position as Ware Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. 

Bullard has authored a number of books that have become standards in the field of environmental justice. (See Further Reading.)... 

Unequal Protection Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. San Francisco Sierra Club Books, 1994. 

Edelstein, Michael R. Poisoned Places Seeking Environmental Justice in a Contaminated World. Boulder, Colo. Westview Press, 2004. 

Alroe, H.F. and Kristensen, E.S. (2004). Investigating organic agriculture in a global perspective. In Third Global Conference on Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship, Copenhagen, February 2004. 

IOM (Institute of Medicine). 1999. Toward Environmental Justice Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs. Washington, DC National Academy Press. 

With regard to environmental justice, it has been shown that there are clear differences among racial groups in terms of disease and death rates furthermore, racial minority and low-income populations experience higher than average exposures to selected air pollutants, hazardous waste facilities, contaminated fish, and agricultural pesticides in the workplace (USEPA, 1992b). 

Woodhouse and Breyman (2004) take a similar approach in their study of green chemistry. For related discussions of how medical and scientist activism is organized toward environmental justice, see McCally (2002) and Frickel (2004b). 

Fellow, D. N. The politics of illegal dumping an environmental justice framework. Qualitative Sociology, 27(4) 511-525 (2004). 

The role that the public has assumed - neither enshrined in the treaty documentation nor anticipated by the States Parties is another unique characteristic of the CWC. Here again, the Convention is evolutionary compared with earlier treaties and international agreements. Chemical weapons disposal has emerged as a vivid example of how local environmental justice concerns can intersect with global disarmament and nonproliferation efforts. With no formal inducement, the public has become a player in the execution of the CWC-mandated destruction of chemical weapons. What lessons can be learned from the public response and how... 

As the 1980s evolved, environmental justice groups developed in many different racial and ethnic communities African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Pacific groups, and the indigenous people of North America. By 1991, the EJ movement had a clear national identify and philosophy, expressed in the Principles of Environmental Justice adopted at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in Washington, DC, which was attended by more than a thousand community activists. 

In 1994, President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12898, requiring all federal agencies to make achieving environmental justice part of their mission . The federal government s definition of environmental justice has two parts equal protection from environmental and health hazards, and equal access to the decision-making processes that create a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work. EJ is about fair treatment, and about expanding democracy to include everyone who is affected by a decision. 

Another important social issue that influences risk communication is environmental justice and the perceived fairness of the risk to a community or subculture. For example, the perceived risk of adverse health effects from a landfill may depend on whether the waste deposited there is generated locally or transported from somewhere else. Similarly, the perception of risks associated with locating new... 

The Office of Environmental Justice serves as a focal point for ensuring that communities comprised predominately of people of color or low-income populations receive protection under environmental laws. 

The Internet Resources section of the TEEIIP Website covers topics such as Arsenic and Human Health, Biological Warfare, Chemical Warfare, Children s Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, September 11th World Trade Center Disaster Lingering Airborne Hazards, and Pesticides Used for West Nile Virus Control. For each topic, TEHIP provides numerous links to a variety of related Websites and other electronic resources. 

Bianco, V Wendroff, A Puerto Rican Family Institute, Queens, NY Magico-religious mercury use in Hispanic communities EPA/Office of Environmental Justice... 

Moomey, M Hryhorczuk, D Illinois Department of Public Health and Great Lakes Center for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health Identification of which ritual mercury uses result in the greatest exposure EPA/Office of Environmental Justice... 

Several studies have focused on environmental issues, including the concept of environmental justice, environmental and occupational education and training in medicine and nursing, and the role of environmental factors in illness (e.g., asthma). 

The concern that offsite treatment of agent-contaminated wastes (even at low levels) may take place in economically depressed communities that call for environmental justice because they already may be disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards and in many cases lack the resources and expertise to challenge such a decision. 

Concerns over the potential risks to human health from exposure to contaminated soils have fired a broader debate over the wider social impacts of contaminated land on the quality of life. Many former industrialised areas form a focus for low cost or social housing, driven partly by positive issues such as access to work opportunities and partly by negative issues such as low land values. Some of the more deprived communities have resided in these contaminated areas. In addition to this social issue of environmental justice, a wider recognition of the importance of a sense of place and community attachment, and a broader interpretation of environment beyond the strictly technical one, are bringing issues like the value of urban ecology, the importance of industrial heritage and the need for wider stakeholder involvement to the fore. 

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