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Equity and the Environment (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
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Around the time of the first "Earth Day," on April 22, 1970, the
academic world joined in a virtual explosion of societal interest
in a topic that inherently lies in the confluence between "social
problems" and "public policy" -- the ways in which humans use and
abuse the natural environment. In the worlds of social movement
organizations and policy, that newfound interest showed up in
dramatic growth of environmental organizations and a stream of
powerful new environmental laws. In the academic world, echoes of
the explosion showed up in equally dramatic growth of
interdisciplinary "environmental" programs with an explicit focus
on the fact that "environmental problems" are inherently social
problems as well.
Over the past decade, a growing body of research has shown that
equity issues need to receive greater attention in academia -- not
just among activists, and not just as the focus of courses on
environmental ethics, but as topics that deserve careful academic
study and that in many ways are at the core of what we call
"environmental" problems. As David Orr (1992) noted, "the symptoms
of environmental deterioration are in the domain of the natural
sciences, but the causes lie in the realm of the social sciences
and humanities."
This volume is intended to call this research to attention, but
also to encourage its further expansion; far from being the kind of
topic that ought to be relegated to a small pigeonhole, issues of
equity and inequality deserve to be absolutely central to the study
of connections between humans and the habitat that we share with
all other life on earth.
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy is now available
online at ScienceDirectfull-text online from volume 8 onwards.
* This volume brings together the leading research on equity and
the environment
* Contributions from academics and researchers in the field.
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