TY - BOOK AU - Morrone,Michele AU - Buckley,Geoffrey L. AU - Davis,Donald Edward AU - Purdy,Jedediah TI - Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia SN - 9780821444283 AV - GE235.A13 M68 2011 U1 - 363.700974 PY - 2011/// CY - Athens, OH PB - Ohio University Press KW - Environmental justice-Appalachian Region KW - Social justice-Appalachian Region KW - Appalachian Region-Environmental conditions KW - Appalachian Region-Social conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1743727 ER -