Environmental Justice
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 14
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Author: Karen Lucas
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2004-10-13
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1861345704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe lack of access to transportation among low-income groups is increasingly being recognised as a barrier to employment and social inclusion both in Britain and the United States. This work looks at the delivery of transport from a social policy perspective to assist in a better understanding of this issue.
Transportation and Environmental Justice
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 172
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Author: Robert Doyle Bullard
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780896087040
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Environmental Justice & Transportation
Author: Shannon Cairns
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental justice is an increasingly important element of policymaking in transportation and is fundamentally about fairness toward the disadvantaged, often addressing the exclusion of racial and ethnic minorities from decisionmaking. This handbook is intended to help those who are new to transportation decision processes influence how environmental justice is incorporated into decisions about transportation policy and projects. Various approaches to environmental justice are discussed, along with steps in the planning process when citizen involvement is particularly effective, suggestions for how environmental justice can be included in a project, and legal requirements for environmental justice implementation.
Environmental Justice
Author: Gordon Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1136619232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises questions about how the environment impacts on different people’s lives. Does pollution follow the poor? Are some communities far more vulnerable to the impacts of flooding or climate change than others? Are the benefits of access to green space for all, or only for some? Do powerful voices dominate environmental decisions to the exclusion of others? This book focuses on such questions and the complexities involved in answering them. It explores the diversity of ways in which environment and social difference are intertwined and how the justice of their interrelationship matters. It has a distinctive international perspective, tracing how the discourse of environmental justice has moved around the world and across scales to include global concerns, and examining research, activism and policy development in the US, the UK, South Africa and other countries. The widening scope and diversity of what has been positioned within an environmental justice ‘frame’ is also reflected in chapters that focus on waste, air quality, flooding, urban greenspace and climate change. In each case, the basis for evidence of inequalities in impacts, vulnerabilities and responsibilities is examined, asking questions about the knowledge that is produced, the assumptions involved and the concepts of justice that are being deployed in both academic and political contexts. Environmental Justice offers a wide ranging analysis of this rapidly evolving field, with compelling examples of the processes involved in producing inequalities and the challenges faced in advancing the interests of the disadvantaged. It provides a critical framework for understanding environmental justice in various spatial and political contexts, and will be of interest to those studying Environmental Studies, Geography, Politics and Sociology.
Environmental Justice, Social and Economic Factors, Women's Travel, and Accessibility and Mobility, 2007
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTRR no. 2013 includes 10 papers that explore emergency response for communities with limited English proficiency, environmental justice analysis for metropolitan transportation planning, equity and fairness in tolling and pricing, and environmental justice assessments for transportation projects. This issue of the TRR also examines long-term social sustainability of transport and land use strategies, comparison of socioeconomic and demographic profiles of extreme commuters, assessing distribution of transportation project impacts with environmental justice framework, analysis of nonwork service trips, door-through-door transportation, and mode choice behavior of elderly travelers.
Transport Justice
Author: Karel Martens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1317599578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on principles of justice. Author Karel Martens starts from the observation that for the last fifty years the focus of transportation planning and policy has been on the performance of the transport system and ways to improve it, without much attention being paid to the persons actually using – or failing to use – that transport system. There are far-reaching consequences of this approach, with some enjoying the fruits of the improvements in the transport system, while others have experienced a substantial deterioration in their situation. The growing body of academic evidence on the resulting disparities in mobility and accessibility, have been paralleled by increasingly vocal calls for policy changes to address the inequities that have developed over time. Drawing on philosophies of social justice, Transport Justice argues that governments have the fundamental duty of providing virtually every person with adequate transportation and thus of mitigating the social disparities that have been created over the past decades. Critical reading for transport planners and students of transportation planning, this book develops a new approach to transportation planning that takes people as its starting point, and justice as its end.
Growing Smarter
Author: Robert D. Bullard
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007-01-12
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0262524708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice. Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and displacement of low- and moderate-income families in existing neighborhoods, or transportation policies that isolate low-income populations. Growing Smarter is one of the few books to view smart growth from an environmental justice perspective, examining the effect of the built environment on access to economic opportunity and quality of life in American cities and metropolitan regions. The contributors to Growing Smarter—urban planners, sociologists, economists, educators, lawyers, health professionals, and environmentalists—all place equity at the center of their analyses of "place, space, and race." They consider such topics as the social and environmental effects of sprawl, the relationship between sprawl and concentrated poverty, and community-based regionalism that can link cities and suburbs. They examine specific cases that illustrate opportunities for integrating environmental justice concerns into smart growth efforts, including the dynamics of sprawl in a South Carolina county, the debate over the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and transportation-related pollution in Northern Manhattan. Growing Smarter illuminates the growing racial and class divisions in metropolitan areas today—and suggests workable strategies to address them.
