Contribution to Book
Streams of toxic and hazardous waste disparities, politics and policy
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice
(2018)
Abstract
Nearly three decades ago, research on the location of hazardous waste landfills rattled US environmental policy institutions. A United Church of Christ (UCC 1987) study reported that three times as many non-whites resided in zip codes hosting these toxic sites compared to zip codes without landfills. Garnering headlines across the country, the UCC study drew national attention to the distributional scrutiny of race, class and pollution over the next seven years. One reviewer at the time concluded that “declaring an end to ‘environmental racism’ is an integral part of the national environmental agenda” (Kisch 1994).
Keywords
- Environmental justice,
- Hazardous waste,
- Toxic waste,
- U.S. environmental policy
Disciplines
Publication Date
2018
Editor
Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty, Gordon Walker
Publisher
Routledge
Series
Routledge International Handbooks
DOI
10.4324/9781315678986.ch25
Publisher Statement
Published by Routledge
Citation Information
Troy D. Abel and Mark Stephan. "Streams of toxic and hazardous waste disparities, politics and policy" 1stHoboken, NJThe Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice (2018) p. 311 - 326 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/troy_abel/21/