Environmental Justice

Abstract Social movements and collective action have often been studied using newspapers for data. Concerns with newspaper data include selection bias, where a subset of accounts, events, or statements are reported, and description bias, which refers to ...

Abstract While the general public ethic upholds the notions of equality for all, protection from harm both natural and human-generated, and impartiality in the application of law, the ethic breaks down for many communities of color and poverty. ...

Abstract “Cumulative impacts” refers to the total harm to human health and the environment resulting from combinations of stressors over time. Cumulative impacts are creating three kinds of effects: degraded ecosystems (such as oceans and boreal forests), ...

Abstract Energy production and distribution have created archetypal cases of environmental injustice—mountaintop removal for coal mining in Appalachia, nuclear waste siting on Navajo reservations in the West, oil refineries in southern Louisiana. ...