Environmental Justice, a new quarterly peer-reviewed journal, will be the central forum for the research, debate, and discussion of the equitable treatment and involvement of all people, especially minority and low-income populations, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. The Journal will explore the adverse and disparate environmental burden impacting marginalized populations and communities all over the world. The Journal will draw upon the expertise and perspectives of all parties involved in environmental justice struggles: communities, industry, academia, government, and nonprofit organizations.
The Journal will address:
- Studies that demonstrate the adverse health affects on populations who are most subject to health and environmental hazards
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The protection of socially, politically, and economically marginalized communities from environmental health impacts and inequitable environmental burden
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The prevention and resolution of harmful policies, projects, and developments and issues of compliance and enforcement, activism, and corrective actions
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Multidisciplinary analysis, debate, and discussion of the impact of past and present public health responses to environmental threats, current and future environmental and urban planning policies, land use decisions, legal responses, and geopolitics
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Past and contemporary environmental compliance and enforcement, activism, and corrective actions, environmental politics, environmental health disparities, environmental sociology, and environmental history
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The connection between environmental remediation, economic empowerment, relocation of facilities that pose hazardous risk to health, selection of new locations for industrial facilities, and the relocation of communities
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The complicated issues inherent in remediation, funding, relocation of facilities that pose hazardous risk to health, and selection for new locations.
Readership will include:
Social justice advocates
Public health and public policy professionals
Industry leaders
Environmental Planners
Academicians
Attorneys
Ethicists
Legislators
Citizen Advocates
Environmental Advocates
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CAB Abstracts