Race & Environmental Equity: An Overview of the Environmental Justice Issue in the Policy Process
- 1 December 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Polity
- Vol. 26 (2) , 281-300
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3235032
Abstract
This article examines the disproportionate impact of environmental pollution on racial minorities, analyzes competing explanations for it, and explores the effects of differing modes of power on the development of this issue in the policy process. Looking back over the last quarter century, the author traces the emergence of racial environmental equity as a public policy question and poses numerous issues yet to be resolved.Keywords
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