Environmental Justice - A Very Short Introduction

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• List of illustrations


• 1 What is environmental justice?


• 2 Environmental justice populations


• 3 Causes of environmental injustice


• 4 The environmental justice movement


• 5 The role of government in the United States and in other countries


• 6 Environmental justice as an international issue


• 7 Climate justice


• 8 Can there be environmental justice?


• References


• Further reading


• Index

About the author

Pamela Hill is an environmental lawyer with more than thirty years of experience at the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she was involved in all major environmental statutes. She has taught environmental law at Boston University School of Law since 1995, as well as at Northeastern School of Law, and has lectured widely. Her previous publications include Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know®.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Hill, Pamela (Lecturer Hill, Hill Pamela
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9780197630136
• ISBN: 978-0-19-763013-6
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; LAW / Natural Resources, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Energy & natural resources law, Energy and natural resources law