Acting Locally: Environmental Injustice and the Emergence of Grass-Roots Environmental Organizations
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 40 (4) , 464-477
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3096862
Abstract
Because of the contradictions inherent in a liberal democratic state, the environmental regulatory process often fails to protect citizens from corpoKeywords
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