Latinos and Environmental Justice: Examining the Link between Degenerative Policy, Political Representation, and Environmental Policy Implementation

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Liang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Political Representation

Environmental Justice, Political Agenda Setting, and the Myths of History

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin V. Melosi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Environmental Organizations ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Earth

The emergence of the environmental justice movement in the 1980s has stimulated much debate on the extent to which race and class have been or should become central concerns of modern environmentalism. Leaders in the environmental justice movement have charged that mainstream environmental organizations and, in turn, environmental policy have demonstrated a greater concern for preserving wilderness and animal habitats than addressing health hazards of humans, especially those living in cities; have embraced a “Save the Earth” perspective at the expense of saving people's lives and protecting their homes and backyards. Some advocates of environmental justice have gone so far as to dissociate their movement from American environmentalism altogether, rather identifying with a broader social justice heritage as imbedded in civil rights activities of the 1950s and 1960s.

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