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'''Environmental justice''' is a term that includes both the academic study of disparate environmental impacts as well as activism to address those impacts. This body of study grew out of the anti-toxic movement of the 1980's, and the findings of the time that environmental harms often correlated with race, class, or other axes of difference. | '''Environmental justice''' is a term that includes both the academic study of disparate environmental impacts as well as activism to address those impacts. This body of study grew out of the anti-toxic movement of the 1980's, and the findings of the time that environmental harms often correlated with race, class, or other axes of difference. | ||
==External links== | |||
*Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, 1987—2007: A Report Prepared for the United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries [[http://www.ucc.org/justice/pdfs/toxic20.pdf UCC Report]] | |||
[[Category:Stub Articles]] | [[Category:Stub Articles]] | ||
[[Category:CZ Live]] | [[Category:CZ Live]] | ||
[[Category:Geography Workgroup]] | [[Category:Geography Workgroup]] | ||
Revision as of 10:16, 6 December 2007
Environmental justice is a term that includes both the academic study of disparate environmental impacts as well as activism to address those impacts. This body of study grew out of the anti-toxic movement of the 1980's, and the findings of the time that environmental harms often correlated with race, class, or other axes of difference.
External links
- Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, 1987—2007: A Report Prepared for the United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries [UCC Report]