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Mountains of Injustice : Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444283
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mountains of InjusticeDDC classification:
  • 363.700974
LOC classification:
  • GE235.A13 M68 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Part one: Perspectives -- one: The Theoretical Roots and Sociology of Environmental Justice in Appalachia -- two: A Legacy of Extraction -- three: Pollution or Poverty -- Part two: Citizen Action -- CHAPTER four: "We Mean to Stop Them, One Way or Another": Coal, Power, and the Fight against Strip Mining in Appalachia -- five: Commons Environmentalism Mobilized -- six: Injustice in the Handling of Nuclear Weapons Waste -- Part three: In Their Own Words -- seven: Housewives from Hell -- eight: Stories about Mountaintop Removal in the Appalachian Coalfields -- Afterword: An American Sacrifice Zone -- Contributors.
Summary: Through compelling stories and interviews with people who are fighting for environmental justice, Mountains of Injustice contributes to the ongoing debate over how to equitably distribute the long-term environmental costs and consequences of economic development.
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Intro -- Part one: Perspectives -- one: The Theoretical Roots and Sociology of Environmental Justice in Appalachia -- two: A Legacy of Extraction -- three: Pollution or Poverty -- Part two: Citizen Action -- CHAPTER four: "We Mean to Stop Them, One Way or Another": Coal, Power, and the Fight against Strip Mining in Appalachia -- five: Commons Environmentalism Mobilized -- six: Injustice in the Handling of Nuclear Weapons Waste -- Part three: In Their Own Words -- seven: Housewives from Hell -- eight: Stories about Mountaintop Removal in the Appalachian Coalfields -- Afterword: An American Sacrifice Zone -- Contributors.

Through compelling stories and interviews with people who are fighting for environmental justice, Mountains of Injustice contributes to the ongoing debate over how to equitably distribute the long-term environmental costs and consequences of economic development.

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