Justice and Natural Resources : Concepts Strategies and Applications (02 Edition)

Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of the problem; poor and minority communities are often denied the benefits of natural resources and can suffer disproportionate harm from decisions about their management and use.

Justice and Natural Resources is the first book devoted to exploring the concept of environmental justice in the realm of natural resources. Contributors consider how decisions about the management and use of natural resources can exacerbate social injustice and the problems of disadvantaged communities. Looking at issues that are predominantly rural and western - many of them involving Indian reservations, public lands, and resource development activities - it offers a new and more expansive view of environmental justice.

The book begins by delineating the key conceptual dimensions of environmental justice in the natural resource arena. Following the conceptual chapters are contributions that examine the application of environmental justice in natural resource decision-making. Chapters examine:

• how natural resource management can affect a range of stakeholders quite differently, distributing benefits to some and burdens to others
• the potential for using civil rights laws to address damage to natural and cultural resources
• the unique status of Native American environmental justice claims
• parallels between domestic and international environmental justice
• how authority under existing environmental law can be used by Federal regulators and communities to address a broad spectrum of environmental justice concerns

Justice and Natural Resources offers a concise overview of the field of environmental justice and a set of frameworks for understanding it. It expands the previously urban and industrial scope of the movement to include distribution of the burdens and access to the benefits of natural resources, broadening environmental justice to a truly nationwide concern.

In 14 chapters, legal and social scholars and conservationists examine conceptual frameworks and directions in environmental justice applied to natural resources. Case studies illustrate the impact on disadvantaged communities of decisions about natural resource management, and innovative approaches to protecting contested terrain. Includes lists of cases and statutes. The editors are with the Natural Resources Law Center, U. of Colorado.
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Justice and Natural Resources is the first book devoted to exploring the concept of environmental justice in the realm of natural resources. Contributors consider how decisions about the management and use of natural resources can exacerbate social injustice and the problems of disadvantaged communities. Looking at issues that are predominantly rural and western — many of them involving Indian reservations, public lands, and resource development activities — it offers a new and more expansive view of environmental justice.

Kathryn M. Mutz is affiliated with the Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Colorado.

Gary C. Bryner is affiliated with the Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Colorado.

Douglas S. Kenney is affiliated with the Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Colorado.

Contents

List of Acronyms

List of Cases

List of Statutes

Forward

by Gerald Torres, University of Texas School of Law

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Frameworks

Chapter 1. Beyond "Traditional" Environmental Justice

David H. Getches and David N. Pellow

Chapter 2. Assessing Claims of Environmental Justice:

Conceptual Frameworks

Gary C. Bryner

Chapter 3. Water, Poverty, Equity, and Justice in Colorado:

A Pragmatic Approach

James L. Wescoat Jr., Sarah Halvorson,

Lisa Headington, and Jill Replogle

Chapter 4. International Environmental Protection: Human

Rights and the North-South Divide

Tseming Yang

Part Two. Concepts

Chapter 5. The Coincidental Order of Environmental

Injustice

Jeff Romm

Chapter 6. Environmental Justice in an Era of Devolved

Collaboration

Sheila Foster

Chapter 7. Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental

Justice

Sarah Krakoff

Part Three. Strategies and Applications

Chapter 8. Expanding Civil Rights Protections in

Contested Terrain: Using Title VI of the Civil

Rights Act of 1964

Luke W. Cole

Chapter 9. Forest Management and Environmental Justice

in Northern New Mexico

Henry H. Carey

Chapter 10. NEPA in Indian Country: Compliance

Requirement to Decision-Making Tool

Dean B. Suagee

Chapter 11. A Framework to Assess Environmental Justice

Concerns for Proposed Federal Projects

Jan Buhrmann

Chapter 12. Protecting Natural Resources and the Issues of

Environmental Justice

Barry E. Hill and Nicholas Targ

Chapter 13. Mineral Development: Protecting the Land and

Communities

Kathryn M. Mutz

Conclusion

Chapter 14. Hoping Against History: Environmental Justice

in the Twenty-first Century

Patricia Nelson Limerick

About the Authors

Index