Environmental Justice Through Research-Based Decision-Making

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ISBN: 9780815335009 | 0815335008
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Copyright: 1/5/2001

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This book discusses whether and to what extent there are widespread injustices and inequities caused by the distribution of environmental hazards in America today.

Series Editors's Foreword

Acknowledgments

xiii

Part I Research-Based Policy and Administrative Decisions for Environmental Justice

Background on Environmental Justice Decisions

(18)

The History and Institutional Context of the Environmental Justice Movement

(7)

Rhetoric versus Reality in Environmental Justice Discourse

(3)

Uncertainty and Environmental Justice Advocacy

(3)

Approach to the Topic

(4)

Policy and Administrative Decisions

(22)

Problem Definition and Situational Complexity in Environmental Justice

(2)

The Predicament and Rationale of Environmental Justice Policy and Administrative Decisions

(5)

``Good'' Environmental Justice Policy and Administrative Decisions

(6)

The Validity of the Empirical Research Foundation

(4)

Foundational Assumptions

(4)

Major Terms and Concepts in the Discourse

(28)

The Concept of Environmental Risk

(3)

The Analytical Geography of Disproportionate Distributions

(12)

The Pivotal Concept of Exposure

(4)

Definitions of Race and Minority Neighborhood

(5)

Definition and Identification of Low-Income Neighborhoods

(3)

A Primer on Empirical Research Methods for Environmental Justice

(34)

A Dualism in Social Scientific Inference

(1)

Hypothesis Testing

(2)

Elements of the Conceptual-Theoretical Domain

(13)

Elements of the Observational-Empirical Domain

(8)

The Role of Statistics in Environmental Justice Research

(6)

Design and the Validity of Environmental Justice Research

105

(26)

Components and Categories of Environmental Justice Research Design

107

(3)

Threats to the Validity of Empirical Statements in Environmental Justice

110

(6)

Environmental Justice Research Designs

116

(10)

A Recommended Procedure for Selection of Comparison Regions

126

(5)

Part II Empirical Foundations of Environmental Justice

A Critical Review of the Empirical Research Literature

131

(54)

Validity and the Peer Review Process

132

(3)

The Early Empirical Research: The 1970s

135

(3)

The Political Movement Gains Momentum: Research in the 1980s

138

(4)

Conflicting Evidence in the Developing Body of Research: The 1990s

142

(37)

Summary of the Empirical Research

179

(6)

The Impacts of Environmental Hazards: An Overview of Some Ancillary Research

185

(22)

Impacts of Proximity to Hazardous Sites on Public Health

186

(6)

The Impact of Hazardous Sites on Neighborhood Dynamics

192

(3)

The Impact of Hazardous Sites on Residential Real Estate Prices

195

(5)

The Impact of Hazardous Sites on Risk Perception and Environmental Concern

200

(7)

Part III Environmental Justice Policy and Administrative Decisions

Uncertainty and Trade-Offs in Effective Decisions

207

(22)

Research-Based Decision-Making in Effective Public Organizations

207

(8)

Uncertainty in Policy and Administrative Decisions for Environmental Justice

215

(5)

The Costs of Uncertainty

220

(4)

Risk Trade-Offs in Environmental Justice Policy and Administrative Decisions

224

(5)

Lessons from Research-Based Environmental Justice Policy and Administrative Decision-Making

229

(20)

A Need for Synthesis

230

(1)

Strategic Management of the National Political Agenda

231

(9)

The Environmental Justice Research Agenda

240

(4)

Implications for Policy and Administrative Decisions

244

(5)

Notes

249

(8)

References

257

(16)

Index

273

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